Florentino Goikoetxea

basque smuggler, 1898-1980 Date Of Birth : 1898-03-14T00:00:00Z Date Of Death : 1980-07-27T00:00:00Z

Florentino Goikoetxea (Goicoechea, Goikoetxe) (1898–1980) was a Basque who worked for the Comet Escape Line during World II. A smuggler by profession, he guided more than 200 Allied airmen shot down in occupied Belgium and France over the Pyrenees mountains to neutral Spain from where they could be repatriated to the United Kingdom. He was honored with the George Medal from the United Kingdom and the Legion of Honor from France.

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