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Show Honor Belgian Heroine Miss Andrce de Jongh, 25, of Belgium Bel-gium has been awarded the George Medal, Britain's highest civilian decoration. She risked her life repeatedly re-peatedly to help downed Allied airmen air-men through enemy lines. When captured she refused to reveal her underground contacts despite Nazi "third degree" pressure. "From 1941 to 1913," the citation reads, "she organized the dispntch of these Allied personnel, crossing mountains In all weather and swimming swim-ming the Somme river 20 timcs.' |