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They Dismissed Her as "Too Young, Too Small, Too Female" - Until She Saved 776 Lives

August 1941 – Pyrenees Mountains, Spanish Border. 25-year-old Andrée de Jongh crouched behind a boulder at 11,000 feet, watching German patrol flashlights sweep closer while 3 British pilots shivered beside her, knowing if those lights found them they'd all be shot before dawn. British intelligence dismissed her as too young to cross alone. The Gestapo offered 100,000 francs for her capture. And by the time they finally caught her, she'd already saved 118 lives. For 17 months she'd perfected the impossible — walking Allied pilots through Nazi checkpoints in broad daylight using a trick military planners never considered. She looked harmless. 5 feet tall. 90 pounds. Worn shoes and tired eyes. German soldiers saw a small Belgian woman traveling with family and waved them through. Never suspecting this tiny nurse was running the network costing them hundreds of Allied prisoners. It violated every assumption about who could run resistance operations. It required absolute calm at dozens of checkpoints where one nervous gesture meant death. And when the Gestapo finally captured her, she told them nothing. Her story survived because the pilots she saved never forgot — the Belgian nurse who crossed the Pyrenees 33 times and built the Comet Line that evacuated 776 Allied personnel before the Germans finally caught her. 🔔 Subscribe for more untold wartime stories 👍 Like if you learned something new 💬 Comment: Which forgotten hero should we cover next? #worldwar2 #andredejongh #cometline #ww2history #resistancefighters #belgianresistance #pyrenees #historydocumentary #untoldhistory #mi9 #escapenetwork #ww2heroes #concentrationcamps #ravensbruck #mauthausen #edithcavell