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The Comet Line

Sunday, 05 April 2015 by Georgina Howard
The Comet Line used Xan Mihura's farm Jauregiko Borda as the first stop over the border on the Baztan Route.
The Comet line, a famous resistance network which operated between 1941 and 1944 during the Second World War, helped grounded allied pilots and officers to safety over the Bidasoa river into Spain. It has been extensively documented: pieced together with the help of diaries written by the soldiers and the help of the families of the Basque
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