This section is quite different to the rest of the site - it contains stories and articles not necessarily connected to either Conscript Heroes or the Pat O'Leary escape line - but I hope the reader will find them of interest anyway. As you will see from the credits, many people have contributed to the information used in these articles, but with some notable exceptions, the words are all my own. I will be adding to this collection as time and circumstance permit ... In early 2008 I was able to add three new articles about USAAF evaders. The first had been previously posted elsewhere on the internet, the second is a translated extract from a French book whilst the third was only ever intended for the man's family. I am particularly grateful to all three authors for allowing me to publish their work here, and hope you find them as interesting as I do. Rudolf Ptacek - Rudolf was one of the three Spitfire pilots who  escaped from France with my father Andrée Borrel - Andrée worked with the PAO before she escaped to England & joined SOE Dominique Edgard Potier - Ed Potier was a Belgian MI9 officer who died at Reims in January 1944 For Ari Rabinowich - Ari was an SOE radio operator that a FANY friend knew at Thame Park On Their Way Back - the Fillerin family from Renty, Pas de Calais, and some of their 'parcels' Create or Quarantine - a day in the life of a young woman at Ravensbrueck Alex Nitelet - Belgian fighter pilot, Pat Line parcel and radio operator for Pat O'Leary Stella Lonsdale - an Englishwoman recruited as a German agent, then sent to England by Pat O'Leary Charles Murchie and Harry Clayton - a tribute to their pioneering work in the Marseille Organisation Bob Milton - a pilot who crashed in France March 1941, and returned to England in January 1943 The Great Ramble - the odyssey that inspired a best selling novel about escape and evasion in France News of Sgt Philo - a concerned mother's letter that crossed all the frontiers - by Derek Richardson Johnny Hopper - his war against the Germans - by Robert Wernick Six Days in September - one party's journey from the Pas de Calais to the Pyrenees Operations Bluebottle I and II - the first PAO sea evacuations from southern France Message in a Matchbox - first news of Pat O'Leary and Tom Groome from Dachau The Last Passeur - in remembrance of Paul Barrau, who died in 2005 - by Scott Goodall The Big Party - perhaps the largest party of servicemen taken south from the Pas de Calais Six Weeks at Miranda - after travelling the length of France and crossing the Pyrenees ... Tom Kenny and the Arrests at Room 530 - a close call for the Marseille Organisation Operations Titania and Rosalind - the last PAO sea evacuations from southern France Who was George - evader Bill Knagg's modern-day search for his war-time helpers Escape from Besancon - the real story of Gordon Laming's escape from Frontstalag 142 The Chauny Escape Line - details of the men helped by Etienne Dromas and his Chauny organisation Early Escapers - some escapers who got back before the escape lines were established Receipt for a Dead Canary - extracts from the memoir of Elizabeth Lucas Harrison In Some Corner of a Foreign Field - in memory of Pte Alfred Edward 'Sandy' Riley 2/6 East Surreys Odd Bod Ken Nolan - shot down over Arnhem and hidden by the Dutch Resistance - by Ken Nolan La Resistance Dans Le Ternois - by René Guittard - in both English and the original French Victor Reynolds - Our Man in Estramoz - by Alberto Franco Seawolf and Seadog - felucca operations from Gibraltar to the southern French beaches in 1942 Tragedy in the Pyrenees - by Warren B Carah Tail End Charlie - how four crewmen from a B-17 were helped to safety - by Dominique Lecomte World War Two and Beyond - a P-47 pilot brought home courtesy of SOE - by Ken Williams Roland Lepers - my father's French courier from Bethune to Marseille Shelburn - a list of the servicemen brought out on the five Bonaparte operations This page updated 29 July 08