Can anyone help with when the Sheet Y escape maps were produced. These maps showed the Schaffhausen salient and were sent covertly to POW camps. I am trying to find what date they were produced. I know they show the location of both Oflag V11C and V111C on them. I have found images of them on line but no details of how they were sent to camps. Can anyone help at all please? Any information would be greatfully received. I suppose its unlikely but has anyone seen one for sale? I presume that they must be rarer than the normal range of WW2 silk maps. Cheers Arnhem
I can’t answer your questions above, but McMaster University has “some” escape maps “on line”, not many Northern Italy and the Swiss Border WWII MI9 escape map, number J3, depicting northern Italy with a close-up of the Swiss border in an inset According to Dr. Barbara A. Bond, in her book "Great Escapes: the story of MI9's Second World War escape and evasion maps," map J3 was printed on January 7, 1942 in a print run of 5,000 and based on native Italian maps and North Africa containing Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Italian Libya and Spanish Rio de Oro WWII MI9 escape map, number K3, North Africa, with map H3, Iberian Peninsula, printed on the verso According to Dr. Barbara A. Bond, in her book "Great Escapes: the story of MI9's Second World War escape and evasion maps," map K3/H2 was printed on April 27, 1943 in a print run of 15,000 Iberian Pennisula WWII MI9 escape map H3, Iberian Peninsula, printed on the verso of number K3, North Africa Link: https://digitalarchive.mcmaster.ca/islandora/object/macrepo:91319
Arnhem, Is this what you mean PoWs' escape maps were smuggled into camps Link: Schaffhausen Airey Neave escape map
I know for sure at least two escape maps were either smuggled into a local OFLAG or the officers carried them already when captured and were not found by the Germans. Stefan.
