Weds French Underground Rescuer

GORDON CARTER '43, a bombardier navigator for the Pathfinder Squadron in the R.A.F. and twice shot down by the Germans, has been in Hanover this term with his French wife Janine, and hair-raising stories of escape and capture. His pretty wife is the sister of one of Carter's rescuers, an escaped prisoner from a German camp named Jouannjean, who, aided by the.French underground, was able to help Carter get out of enemy territory.

Carter, who was born in Paris of British parents, left Dartmouth in 1941 to join the Royal Air Force. Landing in England in October 1942, he was shot down over Brittany on his fourteenth mission. Carter bailed out and precariously masqueraded for a time as a workman. He met his future French brother-in-law in a Trappist monastery where most of the arms and ammunition of the underground of that section were hidden in comers and cellars. Jouannjean's family, whom Carter came to know well, were all active in underground work. Today Carter gives great credit to the underground workers. In an interview by The Dartmouth, he said, "The fault wasn't with the underground that a lot of air crews didn't get out, but the air crews themselves. Some of them would walk into a town inconspicuous as a circus poster. And the sight of a German uniform upset their confidence—that is, some crews, not all. But it was mainly the escapees' fault that they were caught, not the failing of the underground."

After Carter's stay in the monastery and some weeks of wandering about France, he and sixteen other escapees, aided by the underground, obtained a fishing smack. Just as they were stopped on their way out of the harbor by a harbor guard, a man whose house had just been struck by lightning came running up to the guard for help, and Carter and the sixteen Frenchmen were let by without boat inspection. They eventually reached England.

The second time Carter was shot down was over Germany. He walked about a hundred miles in the direction of Holland, and was almost there, when he was spotted by some German children and taken prisoner by their father. He spent the rest of the war in various prison camps, and was finally liberated in the Baltic. Once free he lost no time in returning to France, where he married Janine, bringing her to America last July. The two continued living in Hanover after Carter finished his work at Dartmouth in December. They enjoyed Hanover and being in the United States, but their thoughts were with France, and last month they left Hanover to return there and help in the feeding of war orphans. Carter, at his own expense, has joined the organization called "Save the Children" and will be one of their field representatives in France.

GORDON CARTER '43 AND HIS FRENCH WIFE JANINE