Goering realizes the existence of secret escape organizations for RAF pilots and crews and gives orders that they be destroyed. The Abwehr, the German Army Intelligence service, launches a campaign against the escape lines.
German Commanders-in-Chief in France and Belgium publish orders which make hiding or otherwise assisting Allied soldiers punishable by death.
After the arrest of several in the Brussels organization, new guides are brought in. Among them, Nadine Dumon, a 19-year-old who takes 20 men to Paris before her arrest that summer. Her father, an associate of Paul de Jongh, disappears in the concentration camps. Nadine’s sister, Michou, becomes a guide in 1943.
Dédée’s father, Paul de Jongh, narrowly escapes arrest in Brussels and flees to Paris to continue working from there.
Jean Greindl, alias Nemo, becomes the chief of the Comète Brussels organization.
Dédée and her Basque guide, Florentino Giocoechea, personally escort 54 men over the Pyrenees, increasing the morale of Allied airmen. Dédée becomes a symbol of courage and defiance for her fellow Resistants and the airmen they help.
First all-American air attack in Europe. Thousands of planes are eventually lost over Belgium during the course of the war.
