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Belgium's Silent Spies: WWII Resistance in the Ardennes
While most histories focus on the beaches of Normandy or the Battle of the Bulge, a different war was being fought inside Belgium’s own forests during World War II. This episode explores the Comet Line, an intricate underground network that smuggled Allied airmen and escapees from occupied Brussels to neutral Spain. We trace the routes through the dense Ardennes woodlands, following figures like Jacques Piree and the Royal Observatory of Belgium, who used astronomy and coded weather reports to guide pilots home. Lucas and Luna discuss how ordinary citizens risked execution to help strangers…
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