Map, Escape, Silk, Iberian Peninsula, 1943, RAF & USAAF, Mint
€195.00
Tax included
Genuine WWII British escape silk map of Southwest France and Northeast Spain on one side (43/K East), Northwest Spain and North Portugal on the other (43/K West). Scale: 1:1000,0000.
In 1943, a new series of ten silk maps in eight colors, printed on silk and covering most of Europe — apart from the British Isles and Scandinavia — was issued to RAF and USAAF aircrews. Designed by the MI9 and produced by John Waddington Ltd., they were 50 per cent larger than the famous Bartholomew maps.
These ten maps were referenced by letters A to K preceded by mention 43, which corresponds to the year of publication. They are all 1:1000,000 in scale (1 cm to 10 km) and double-sided printed sequentially: A/B, C/D, E/F, G/H and K West/K East. Others were produced in smaller quantities: C/E, D/F and F/G.
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