Great Escapes: The story of MI9’s Second World War escape and evasion maps. Barbara Bond
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Название: Great Escapes: The story of MI9’s Second World War escape and evasion maps
Автор: Barbara Bond
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Историческая литература
isbn: 9780008165062
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Rjukan, Norway 1:100,000 GSGS 4090 [Fabric], sheet E35 West.
Detail from this sheet.
The hydro-electric power plant at Rjukan, where German scientists attempted to produce the ‘heavy water’ necessary for the manufacture of atomic weaponry. The Germans were experimenting with the process as early as 1940, but the project was sabotaged by Norwegian and British forces.
Sheet 43A, showing northern France and parts of Belgium and Holland. The main map was printed at 1:1,000,000 with insets of the French–Spanish border at a larger scale.
[SERIES 43]
The use of standard operational mapping continued into 1943. This particular escape and evasion series had no title or individual sheet names. All sheets had the prefix 43 which, it is believed, refers to 1943, the year in which production commenced, and so this escape and evasion series has been identified as [Series 43]. A detailed list of the sheets, which are all small-scale (1:1,000,000) with some large-scale insets, is provided in Appendix 5. There are ten basic sheets, produced largely in combinations, with only one sheet apparently printed single-sided. The coverage extends from 10°W to 26°E (Portugal to Turkey) and from 40°N to 52°N (central Spain to Holland).
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