On to Paris Via the Comet Line
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On to Paris Via the Comet Line
When we arrived in Paris, I was following my guide through the
station, and suddenly, two gendarmes stepped out from behind
a pillar and stopped him. And I didn’t know why and I saw him
turning white and I kept going out of the station. I had no
choice and fortunately there was a little square near the station
and there was a bench there, so I sat on the bench and watched
the station. And after a while, my guide came out and walked
by me and I followed him. And I had been told beforehand
he would take me to where there would be a man of about 60
with a newspaper under his left arm, grey hair and wearing
a French beret, and he’d be window shopping. So I saw him
and I followed him. And he took me to an apartment where
I stayed overnight. And then I was taken, the next day,
by a guide to an apartment in the suburb of Paris,
which was kept by a couple named Cauché (sp), and I
stayed there for about a week. One day a guide arrived
with another airman, who turned out to be my friend Pierce,
who was also from my squadron, an Australian. We talked for
ten minutes perhaps but then he was left there and I was
taken to another place, to another large house, where there...
My two friends of the night before that I’d travelled
with were already there, and also a young Belgian and
a Scottish soldier who’d been a prisoner of war for a couple
of years ever since Dunkirk. And we were five and what was
happening was they were making a travelling package to go
across the Pyrenees but we didn’t know that. We, you know,
we weren’t given any information in advance, in case,
for security reasons. So in case we were captured
we couldn’t give away the information to the Gestapo.
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