Articles About the Line

On the next two pages of this website the visitor will find the two-part article, “Dutch and Belgian Heroism,” that appeared in Belgian Laces in 2004.  It will provide an overview of what was going on in 1943 with respect to the escape lines used by Tom Applewhite.  Special emphasis is on the Smit-van der Heijden Line and Service EVA, the Brussels-based group that received, processed, housed, and forwarded arriving Allied airmen.