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Janine de Greef, Belgian who helped smuggle downed Allied airmen to safety, dies at 95 Phil Davison, The Washington Post Dec. 15, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3As a teenager, Janine de Greef helped downed Allied airmen escape Nazi-occupied France during World War II.Family photoShow MoreShow Less 2of3Janine de Greef receives the U.S. Medal of Freedom.Family photoShow MoreShow Less 3of3 Janine de Greef was a 14-year Belgian schoolgirl when the Nazis invaded her country in May 1940. With her youth proving an effective cover, she became at 16 a member of the Belgian resistance, he...

Last modified on Fri 8 Jan 2021 12.11 EST Janine de Greef, who has died aged 95, was a teenage courier for the Comet escape line that linked occupied Belgium to neutral Spain during the second world war. For three years she escorted allied servicemen from Paris to the south-west city of Bayonne by train, or from Bayonne to the foothills of the Pyrenees by tram or bicycle. More than once she had to teach an aviator how to ride a bicycle before they could go ahead. Sergeant Bob Frost, an RAF gunner whom she guided from Paris to St Jean de Luz in 1942, remembered her as “a real heroine, that g...