{"product_id":"bale-out-escaping-occupied-france-with-the-resistance","title":"Bale Out! Escaping Occupied France with the resistance","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlfie Martin was born at Finaghy, Belfast in 1920. In 1938, like many young men at that time, he was hit by a feeling of patriotism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eForbidden by his mother from joining the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Ð it was too dangerous! Ð  in January 1939 he instead joined the Antrim Fortress Company, Royal Engineers. This was a Territorial Army company training one evening a week in central Belfast. Called up in August 1939 he served with the Engineers at Kilroot, HelenÕs Bay and Magilligan before joining the Royal Air Force in May 1941.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt was while serving with No 102 Squadron RAF, at Pocklington, Yorkshire, as an Observer on Halifax bomber HR663, that his aircraft was shot down over the French-Belgian border and this remarkable tale of escape from German-occupied France began.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alfie Martin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44305820319905,"sku":"9781111131147","price":32.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0462\/1120\/3233\/files\/195g7z7w-front-shortedge-384_caabaf37-3b31-4a69-81b1-d441a39618a7.jpg?v=1748414849","url":"https:\/\/bookswholesale.myshopify.com\/products\/bale-out-escaping-occupied-france-with-the-resistance","provider":"BooksWholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}