Out of fuel on an escort mission on 11 April 1944, Pilot Thomas P. Smith crash-landed his P-47 #42-74737 in the small French hamlet of Macou, near the Belgian border. He started walking in a northwesternly direction, crossed the Franco-Belgian border and reached Bernissart, Belgium. He was first helped there by Jean Ravez then by Lucien Duhaut of Quévaucamps. The third Helper he mentions in his Evasion Report is Léon Lefebvre in Chièvres. Other people cared for food, false papers, etc. Brought to Brussels, told that the organization would get him out from there to neutral Switzerland. He was arrested, probably on denunciation/infiltration of the escape line and interned at the Saint-Gilles Prison in Brussels. With other captured airmen and Belgian civilians, he was put on a train for Germany on 2 September 1944. Thanks to the courage and actions of Belgian railway men, the train never left Belgium (“The Phantom Train” episode - see http://www.conscript-heroes.com/escapelines/EEIE-Articles/Art-17-Ghost-…). Smith and others left the train and were freed when Brussels was liberated on 3-4 September 1944. He was driven to Paris for interrogation, interviewed there on 8 September and flown back to England where he arrived the following day. Escape & Evasion Report E&E 1781.