Mon, 18 August 2008  Episode 11 : Mrs. Etta Shiber, a former housewife, who help form the Paris Underground. Where she helped smuggle 150 British soldiers out of occupied France. She was tracked around Paris, and was caught and imprisoned for a year and a half by the Gestapo. Etta was finally handed over the U.S. in exchange for Johanna Hofmann, a Nazi spy. The song you hear at the start and finish is called To Victory! by DJ Topshelf. Comments[0] |
Sun, 3 August 2008  Episode 10 : About 4:30 in the afternoon of November 2, 1942. A fast Dutch luxury liner was torpedoed and sunk some few hundred miles off the coast of South America. Only a few of the more then four hundred persons on the ship survived, and three of them were Basil Izzi, Cornelius van der Slot and Nicko Hoogendam. They were a drift on a raft for 83 days just one day short of 12 weeks before they were pick up by United States Navy. Comments[1] |
