AIR FORCES ESCAPE AND EVASION SOCIETY (AFEES)
The Air Forces Escape and Evasion Society (AFEES) is an organization of (1) American airmen shot down during WWII who escaped or evaded capture by the Germans, (2) their helpers, (3) family members, and (4) friends of AFEES. It also includes some POWs. It holds an annual reunion and welcomes new members. Below is the table of contents of its website. Each listing below will link the viewer to the corresponding page of the website. Note that when you click on a page, the page heading in the display of page headings in upper part of the screen will be italicized and in red. For example, AFEES Contents of Website. That tells you that you are on the page that you intended to click on. Just scroll down to view the contents of the page.
- About Us
- AFEES Annual Reunions
- AFEES Book About AFEES
- AFEES Book “Stepping Stones to Freedom”
- AFEES Books by AFEES Members
- “Adjutants Call” by Paul E. Kenney
- “Code Burgundy: The Long Escape” by John Katsaros
- “In the Shadow of the Swastika” by Hendrik van Remmerden
- “The Long Return” by Bob Porter
- “The Road Home” by Anne Jacobson Robertson
- “The World War II Years of Marguerite” by Marguerite Fraser née Brouard”
- “They Helped Me Escape, From Amsterdam to Gibraltar, 1944” by Clayton David
- AFEES By-Laws
- AFEES Contacts
- AFEES Contents of Website
- AFEES Current Events
- AFEES Donations
- AFEES Emblems
- AFEES Escape and Evasion Speech 2019 Reunion
- AFEES EVADE! dvd; interviews
- AFEES History
- AFEES In Memoriam/Obituaries
- AFEES Member Stories Database
- AFEES Membership – How to Join
- AFEES Membership Lists
- AFEES Memorabilia Cherished in France
- AFEES News Reports
- AFEES Newsletter Archive
- AFEES Officers
- AFEES Reunions
- AFEES T-shirts for Sale
- AFEES Unit Contacts
- AFEES Website
- Aviation Art
- B-17 “All American”
- B-17, B-24, Lancaster WWII Footage
- B-24 Liberator, Loved and Loathed
- BBC in WWII
- “Behind the Wire – Allied Airmen in Captivity in Germany“
- Code-Breaking, Cryptanalysis
- Commemorative Organizations
- Conditions in Nazi-Occupied Europe
- Eighth Air Force
- Equipment Used by Evading Airmen
- Escape and Evasion Books
- Escape and Evasion From Yugoslavia
- “‘George’ Was Busy Helping Airmen”. Click here.
- “Downed in Yugoslavia”. Click here.
- “WWII Veterans Honor Croation”. Click here.
- Operation Halyard. Click here.
- “A Dream Comes True for Joe Maloney.” Click here.
- “I Was There” (Slovenia) by Les Laws. Click here.
- “Joe Puts Together His Story”. Click here.
- “Chetniks Help Pilot Fly Again”. Click here.
- “OSS Captain Remembers the General”. Click here.
- “Serbian Rescuers Aided U.S. Crews”. Click here.
- Escape and Evasion Museums and Tours
- Escape and Evasion Research
- Air Force Academy Library Holdings
- December 31, 1943 8th AF Bombing Mission Over Southwest France
- Dit is Mijn Vader!
- Eighth Air Force
- Escape and Evasion Air War Symposium
- Escape and Evasion Articles
- “‘Evader’ Author Recalls Days of World War II”
- “Escape Artists”
- “Friends & Allies”
- “From American Airman to Polish Infantryman”
- “House of Alphonse” and “Operation Bonaparte”
- “Mission Number Thirty-Three”
- “Saludo a la Bandera”
- “Shot Down” by Steve Snyder”
- “Unique Group of Survivors“
- “WWII Soldiers Get Chance to Thank Rescuers“
- Escape and Evasion Book List
- Escape and Evasion Reports at the National Archives
- Escape and Evasion Reports – Samples from the National Archives
- Escape and Evasion Websites
- Escape Route Maps
- France: Maps of Occupied Zones
- National Archives Focusing on WWII
- Escape and Evasion Via Gibraltar
- Escape and Evasion Via Switzerland
- Escape and Evasion WWII Movies and Documentaries
- Escape from the Japanese
- Escape Lines
- Bleu et Jonquille (Blue and Pale Yellow)
- Burgundy (Bourgogne) Line
- Chauny Escape Line
- Comet Line(Le Réseau Comète)
- Donald Caskie, The Tartan Pimpernel
- Dutch-Paris Line
- French Escape Lines List
- Luctor et Emergo/Fiat Libertas
- Marie-Claire Line
- MI9/IS9 and MIS-X
- Miscellaneous Escape Lines
- MNB (Belgian National Movement/Mouvement National Belge)
- Operation Marathon/Freteval Forest
- PAT (Pat O’Leary) Line
- Possum Line
- Service EVA
- Shelburn (Shelbourne) Line
- Smit-van der Heijden Line
- Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee
- Escape Lines Memorial Society (ELMS)
- Evaders and Oranges, the Seville Escape Route
- Humor and Air Force Band Concerts
- Medal of Honor Recipients
- Memoirs From WWII
- “A Trip Back in Time” by Col. Frank Alfter, USAF (Ret.)
- “A Jewish New Yorker’s War Against Hitler,” by Laurie Gwen Shapiro, New York Times
- “A Small Mistake – Large Effects” by Rene Londoz
- “A Young Boy and the ‘Good’ War” by Edouard Reniere
- “Bailout Over France and the Journey Home” by Jack W. Stead.
- “Colditz in Close-Up” by Robin Charteris
- “Escape Over the Pyrenees” by Catherine Ramognino Thorpe
- “Eugene J. Bullard, Hero of Two World Wars”
- “Military Transport” by Joe Owens
- 1st Lt. Alfred M.L. Sanders’ Story
- Charlotte Ambach Interview
- Evasion of Lt. Russel Weyland; Memoirs of Helper Maurice Costa
- Helene (Nell) Gill, A Soldier Without Uniform
- Evade! The Ralph Patton Story
- “Mission to Bucharest: Overdue on Return”
- “Mission 13: A Downed Pilot’s Escape from France”
- “POW and Escape” by William W. Provonsha
- “Joel McPherson’s Wild Ride” by Bill Yenne
- “Last Mission: Bailout and Rescue in Luxembourg” by Ordway B. Gates
- “Tom Got to Freedom, the Hard Way”
- “Why I Never Spoke of the War” by Richard Frohm
- “You Are Supposed to Be Dead”, The Amazing Story Behind Bill McGinley’s Purple Heart.”
- “Three Die, Four Taken Prisoner, One Evades on 303rd’s Final Raid”
- RAF, RCAF, RAAF Evasion Stories
- Recognition for WWII Service
- Restoration of WWII Aircraft
- Reunions and Memorials
- Traitors, Betrayers, and Collaborators
- “To Holland” by Roy Carter (RCAF) and Other Poems
WWII Netherlands Escape Lines 