Thomas L. Boggan.

2nd Lt. Thomas L. Boggan (O-691612), Bombardier, 328th Squadron, 93rd Bomb Group, was MIA on 1 August 1944. He bailed out at approximately 17,000 feet north of Paris, near St Denis, landing in a field where a French woman and two children immediately approached him and directed him toward nearby woods.

A French civilian escorted him to a hiding place in the rocks and the following morning two men brought clothes and shoes. Boggan boarded a train to Paris and after spending 3.5 to 4 hours at Gare St Lazare among Gestapo and German soldiers, a young Frenchman guided him by Metro to a safe house at a dairy/cab man named Heilys, a former boxer. Resistance men including Pierre Durafour sheltered him for three days.

A resistance courier escorted Boggan through Chartres and Bonneval to Chateaudun, then to a camp near Cloyes. On 11 August a British captain arrived by jeep promising relief, but when no one appeared and Gestapo trucks entered Cloyes, Boggan and two RAF men walked 25-30 miles southwest to liberated territory. They were taken to American forces at Montebleau, passed through XX Corps channels, and obtained a flight from T-2 airfield, arriving back in the UK on 19 August 1944.