Great Escapes: The story of MI9’s Second World War escape and evasion maps
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Barbara Bond. Great Escapes: The story of MI9’s Second World War escape and evasion maps
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
1. THE CREATION OF MI9
NORMAN CROCKATT
ORGANIZATION
KEY STAFF
THE TRAINING SCHOOL AT HIGHGATE
ESCAPE-MINDEDNESS
2. BACKGROUND TO THE MAPPING PROGRAMME
THE HISTORY OF MILITARY MAPS ON SILK
3. THE MAP PRODUCTION PROGRAMME
MI9’S CARTOGRAPHIC INEXPERIENCE
MAPS BASED ON BARTHOLOMEW MAPPING (AND OTHER MAPS WITH SIMILAR SHEET NUMBERS)
EUROPE AIR 1:500,000 GSGS 3982 [FABRIC]
NORWAY 1:100,000 GSGS 4090 [FABRIC]
[SERIES 43]
[SERIES 44]
[SERIES FGS]
MISCELLANEOUS MAPS
MI9 BULLETIN MAPS
THE PRODUCTION OF THE MAPS
SOURCING OF SILK AND PAPER
RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE MILITARY MAP-MAKERS
4. SMUGGLING MAPS AND OTHER ESCAPE AIDS INTO THE CAMPS
THE ARTS OF SMUGGLING AND MAGIC
ROLE OF THE MI9 BULLETIN
THE USE OF BOARD GAMES, SPORTS EQUIPMENT AND OTHER LEISURE ITEMS
OTHER ESCAPE AIDS: COMPASSES AND PURSES
ESCAPE PACKS
DELIVERY AND COMMUNICATION
CAMP ORGANIZATION
VOLUME OF PARCELS DESPATCHED TO THE CAMPS
5. CODED CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE CAMPS
MI9’S CODING SYSTEM
SELECTION AND TRAINING OF THE CODE USERS
DEVELOPMENT OF THE CODES
THE CODED LETTER WRITERS AND THEIR ROLE
DECODING REQUESTS FOR ESCAPE AIDS
VOLUME AND PASSAGE OF CODED LETTER TRAFFIC
THE CONSTRUCTION OF CODED LETTERS
DECODING A HIDDEN MESSAGE
ORGANIZATION IN THE CAMPS
ASSESSING THE CODED LETTER PROGRAMME
6. THE SCHAFFHAUSEN SALIENT AND AIREY NEAVE’S ESCAPE
MI9’S ESCAPE ROUTES
ESCAPE TO SWITZERLAND: THE SCHAFFHAUSEN SALIENT
AIREY NEAVE’S ESCAPE FROM COLDITZ
7. ESCAPING THROUGH THE BALTIC PORTS
ATTEMPTED ESCAPES VIA THE BALTIC PORTS
8. COPYING MAPS IN THE CAMPS
COPYING MAPS
PRINTING MAPS
TWO MANUSCRIPT ESCAPE MAPS
9. MI9 AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO MILITARY MAPPING
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MI9’S MAPPING PROGRAMME
HUTTON’S ROLE
A NEW AND INEXPERIENCED INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATION
THE CLOSURE OF MI9
DID MI9 MEET ITS REMIT?
THE SUCCESS OF MI9’S MAPPING PROGRAMME
EPITAPH
APPENDICES
MAPS KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN PRODUCED BY MI9: A CARTO-BIBLIOGRAPHY. INTRODUCTION
PRINCIPAL MAP REPOSITORIES
KEY TO LOCATION OF EXTANT COPIES IN THE TABLES THAT FOLLOW
PREPARING THE CARTO-BIBLIOGRAPHY
PRINT DATES
PRINT MEDIA
APPENDIX 1
APPENDIX 2
APPENDIX 3
APPENDIX 4
APPENDIX 5
APPENDIX 6
APPENDIX 7
APPENDIX 8
APPENDIX 9
APPENDIX 10
BIBLIOGRAPHY. PRIMARY SOURCES
PRIVATE PAPERS
PUBLISHED SOURCES
PRIMARY PUBLISHED SOURCES
SECONDARY PUBLISHED SOURCES
ILLUSTRATION AND IMAGE CREDITS
INDEX
ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
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Acknowledgements
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He went further, however, spending time prior to the outbreak of World War II visiting the Schaffhausen area of the German–Swiss border, across which he had made his own successful bid for liberty in World War I, photographing the border area and making copious notes. It cannot be coincidence that the MI9 Bulletin contained two large-scale maps of the Schaffhausen Salient, together with ground photographs of the local topography, showing distinctive landmark features, for example the stream and footpath where the German border guards patrolled. MI9’s map production programme also included sheet Y, a large-scale map of the Schaffhausen Salient which carried very detailed notes of the topography and landscape features to help escaping prisoners of war (see Chapter 6 for the significance of this map in the MI9 programme and Appendix 1).
Jimmy Langley, who organized covert escape routes for MI9, and later co-authored the definitive history of MI9.
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