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The Incredible Escape: Edouard Izac’s 120-Mile Trek

Medal of Honor: Stories of Courage

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May 27, 2026

Show Notes

During World War I, Navy Lieutenant Edouard Izac was plucked from a lifeboat by a German submarine, where, for weeks, he lived among his captors. After secretly gathering intelligence on the movements of the German fleet, Izac knew this information could change the course of the war and had to be given to the Allies. But first, he had to get out of Germany. He would hurl himself out of a moving train, trek 120 miles through the mountains, and swim across the Rhine, but he would never, ever give up.  

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Episode resources:

Escapeby Dwight R Messimer (Naval Institute Press, 1994)

Prisonerof the U-90 by Edouard Victor Isaacs (Houghton Mifflin, 1919)

“Oral History: the Recollections of Lieutenant Edouard Victor Isaacs, U.S.N.” by the Department of the Navy, 1918 

Medalof Honor by Allen Mikaelian (Hyperion, 2002)

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