World War II Escape Maps

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Holy. As if the Map room wasn’t cool enough, this post high­lights maps that allied sol­diers wore on them in case of cap­ture dur­ing WW2

“This morn­ing, Sean Gillies posted pho­tos of his grandfather’s escape maps. “Yes­ter­day, I received in the mail my grandfather’s cloth escape maps of France, Hol­land, Bel­gium, Lux­em­bourg, and Ger­many. He flew a Piper Cub for the US Army, mainly shut­tling brass between Eng­land and France. Never used, the maps went from a pocket in his jacket to an enve­lope in a foot locker; they’re in great condition.”

As it turns out, there are actu­ally at least two Web sites about WWII escape maps; each has a col­lec­tion of scans. U.S. Cloth Maps of World War II is less com­pre­hen­sive than WWII Escape Maps; the lat­ter includes maps from Amer­i­can, British and Aus­tralian services.”

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