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...soft swelling on the left side of his neck. Beshoar knew it was a massive aneurysm of the carotid artery, and that he could do nothing about it. He did all he could to make the patient more comfortable, then referred him to the nearest Army hospital at Fort Lyon 90 miles away. There, two weeks later, Kit Carson died. The striking thing, said DeBakey, is that not until almost 90 years after this could any surgeon have done anything more than did Beshoar...
...isolated ranch in the Pyrenees above San Sebastian. From there, it is a four-night trek down the Pyrenees into the flatlands of southern France, where they are packed into the false-bottomed trucks. Once out of range of French border police, the escapees are sent to Paris or Lyon by train...
...Would you like a chocolate, mad-ame?" asked the elegant Oriental as the overnight express to St.-Gervais in the French Alps pulled out of Paris' Gare de Lyon. Even though she should have been careful-after all, she and the stranger were alone in the compartment -Mme. Huguette Munck accepted a bonbon. It tasted bitter...
CHRISTINA M. LYON...
...drew up plans for massive help for the eventual Allied landings. While the Nazis searched frantically for him, Moulin, nicknamed "the King of Shadows," held a Paris meeting of the 16 most important leaders of the underground, who elected him president. But in June 1943, Moulin was captured near Lyon by the Gestapo, and a few weeks later he was dead of torture-without having revealed anything he knew about the Resistance to the Nazis...