ABSTRACT
In the autumn of 1943, the long pause of more than 20 months during which not a single agent had been landed on or picked up from the north coast of France, came to an end. The 15th MGB Flotilla established new sea lines to and from Brittany for SIS, SOE and MI9, but for all Resistance organisations in Brittany, whatever their original purpose, the essential problem was how to evacuate Allied evaders and escapers. The immediate reason for this was the large number of Allied aircraft shot down in the Breton peninsula in the course of the never-ending attacks on the French Atlantic ports and the U-boat bases they contained.1
