George Duffee
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What a wonderful story. These men and women who operated the escape route at great peril to their own wellbeing deserve this country's most grateful thanks. I am not sure that they did.
When I was at Topcliffe in 1946 I became friendly with a fellow Staff W.op WO Pete Jezzard who whilst on 622 Squadron was shot down on the way back from a raid on Stuttgart in March 44. He baled out over France and whilst he never went in to details of his escape I imagine it followed much the same pattern as George's since he was eventually repatriated from Gibralter.
He returned to 622 and finished his tour at the end 0s 1944 being awarded the DFM.
Sadly Pete was later killed in early 1948 when the Wellington he was flying in on a cross country nav exercise failed to return and is believed to have crashed in the north sea.