• Medientyp: Buch; unbewegtes Bild; Bildband
  • Titel: Evasion and escape devices : produced by MI9, MIS-X, and SOE in World War II
  • Beteiligte: Froom, Phil [VerfasserIn]
  • Erschienen: Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd, [2015]
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  • Umfang: 383 Seiten; Illustrationen
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN: 9780764348396; 0764348396
  • Entstehung:
  • RVK-Notation: MZ 6050 : Einzelne Spezialeinheiten
    NQ 2780 : Spionage und Abwehr
    NQ 2570 : Militärgeschichtliche Darstellungen
    NQ 3220 : Geschichte 1939 - 1945
  • Schlagwörter: Zweiter Weltkrieg > Kriegsgefangener > Flucht > Gerätebau > Geschichte
  • Beschreibung: "This book describes the design, manufacture, covert shipment and use of the many ingenious evasion and escape devices provided to Allied troops during WWII. Following the fall of mainland Europe, hostile Allied actions against land-based Axis forces were generally limited to air attacks. However, as the numbers of those attacks increased, the number of aircraft and crews failing to return grew alarmingly: something needed to be done to provide these air crews with aids to enable them to evade to safe territory or escape captivity, or losses of irreplaceable crews would become critical. Britain’s MI-9 and U.S. MIS-X organizations were formed solely to support evaders and prisoners of war in occupied territories. They developed a wide variety of evasion and escape devices that were given to Allied Forces prior to operations in hostile territory or delivered clandestinely to POWs. It worked: the aids facilitated the return of thousands of men to their units."--Publisher description

    Formation and planning -- MI9 origins and establishment -- MIS-X origins and establishment -- Escape aids: procurement and supply -- Covert delivery to the camps -- Communications and codes -- Escape maps -- Escape compasses -- Money purses and maps only wallets -- Blood chits -- Documents, ephemera and insignia -- Aids boxes (personal aids survival kits) -- Uniform and clothing items -- Toiletry items -- Smoking items and accessories -- Sporting items and games -- Personally purchased or adapted items -- Forgery, writing and art materials -- Mend and make do (sewing items) -- General items -- Escape tools, knives, saws and blades -- Discovery by the enemy -- Appendices. I. Escape purse and maps only pouch contents tables -- II. List of games shipped to prisoner of war camps -- III. MI9 bogus charity groups -- IV. Circular rotators -- V. MI9 personnel list -- VI. MI9 escape aid numbers -- VII. E.R. Watts escape aids manufacturing code numbers -- VIII. Translation of Die Wehrmacht magazine, August 1943 -- IX. 15th Flotilla Coastal Forces in support of MI9
  • Anmerkungen: Includes bibliographical references and index

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