Herman Bodson was born on December 21, 1912. He was able to receive a Doctor of Science degree in Physical Chemistry and just about got his master's degree in Mineralogy. Before he could get his master's degree he enlisted into the Belgian army medical service when WWII started. When Belgium surrendered in 1940, Bodson started getting involved with resistance work. He had first been involved the resistance group OMBR (Belgian Military Organization of Resistance), but then formed a different group in the Ardennes. Since he had a doctorate degree in physical science, he was a weapons expert who worked on numerous sabotage missions. One mission included attack a German railway convoy which killed 600 hundred German soldiers. Bodson was also involved in rescuing and sheltering allied pilots who had been shot down; as a result he saved at least 17 allied pilots. He also assisted U.S. forces after he had become trapped in the town of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge. Herman Bodson as a result for his service in the Belgian resistance, was awarded various medals like: the Commemorative and Resistance Medals, the British King's Medal for Courage in the Cause of Freedom and the American Medal of Freedom
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Flemming Muus was born on Novermber 21, 1907 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was an author and in 1942, he was recruited in England by the SOE (Special Operations Executive) where he worked as their chief agent in Denmark in March 1943. As a result for his efforts in the resistance movement and his assistants with Denmark's liberation by the Allies he was awarded a Distinguished Service Order. When the war was over Muus was arrested for embezzlement by the British police, where he was then turned over to the Danish. He was sentenced to two years behind bars in Copenhagen in June of 1946. Although his sentence was only two years he was released after only a few months and then he left Denmark for five years. He and his wife traveled all over the globe and he continually claimed that although large amounts of money passed through his hands he never once took any of it.
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