WW2 (1942?) RAF Silk Escape Map

[scoobsean]

I have a silk escape map that I assume is from around 1942. Shows Germany, Poland, Hungary, Austria etc. The latest boundaries marked on the map are from 1941 and the map is black and white (Map is 9U). It came all creased and folded up. I got is safely framed and it looks great now.Attachment 64243Attachment 64244Attachment 64245

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[Peter Laidler]

Lovely thing to have but please keep it out of the sunlight though. They fade fast otherwise - so I've been told!

[scoobsean]

Lovely thing to have but please keep it out of the sunlight though. They fade fast otherwise - so I've been told!

Yes, it is in a darker room in the house and also has some special glass in the frame

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

Yes, it is in a darker room in the house and also has some special glass in the frame

With the quality of current copy & printing quality I have been making copies to frame & preserving the originals in a fire safe. This photo is a bit foggy but the document & photo are very true to the original in person and I sleep better knowing the originals are a bit safer.

[Gil Boyd]

Interesting.......prior to going out to Borneo having arranged a return to a battle site for 3 veterans of 2 PARA from a little known battle after 50 years called Plaman Mapu, a small hillock on the border with Indonesia where 36 of 2 PARA's young soldiers fought off 400 Indonesian SF, there I was in Hereford visiting my daughter ironically, and stumbled across a shop that had been given a load of Borneo escape maps stamped RAF RESTRICTED, clearly dated 1965, the very year we were commemorating, from some ex Regiment guy.

Well I bought 3 at £12 each and wanted to give the guys something special at the end of it all. What tremendous value. There were other silk escape maps covering BAOR and other historical events, but heyho!
It was just that, "special" and a great keepsake for each of them to mark their return and their sacrifice, which had they not done it in that heady period, the Malaysian Federation would have collapsed and today would have been under Communist rule, including Singapore.
Isn't worth thinking about really.

If interested in this period of history here is an hour long documentary made for Forces Tv:

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