After arriving safely there he was equipped with the paperwork of a Belgian persona, and then traveled by train via Brussels and Paris to Toulouse, where the French Resistance put him with two American lieutenants, two other RAF pilots, a French officer and a Russian, and took the group across the Pyrenees to Lleida in Spain.
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Bailing-out from his stricken aircraft he parachuted down safely at Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais), but was immediately captured by a Wehrmacht patrol.
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Later he moved to the U.S. with his wife Petie and their three children, and took practice as a OB-GYN in Syracuse, New York, and as a GP in Ruidoso, New Mexico.
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In the 1963 film The Great Escape, elements of his part in the affair were written into the role of 'Sedgwick', played by the actor James Coburn.
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