Map, Escape, Silk, MI 9, LOWER BURMA AND SIAM
€375.00
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Rare genuine WWII British silk escape map, printed on both sides: Lower Burma and Siam and Upper Burma and Assam.
Scale: 1:2,000,000.
This is one of the earliest series of silk or rayon escape maps produced by Bartholomew of Edinburgh on behalf of the MI 9, heat-treated to prevent the cloth from unravelling, and intended for being issued to RAF and USAAF aicrews flying of enemy-occupied territories.
The first side covers a part of southern Burma and the border regions of Siam (present-day Thailand); the second side covers a part of northern Burma and the border regions of Assam (present-day Bangladesh and India).
Very good overall condition.
Dimensions: 21.25in x 27.55in.
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