Escape Aids

The following pages discuss some of the resources available to an airman who is evading capture or, if captured, seeking to escape:

1. Box and Purse

2. Cloth Maps

3. German Propaganda Magazines

4. MIS-X Secret Aids to American POWs

5. Royal Air Force Escape Aids

In addition, a general website, Escape Maps and Escape Aids from World War II, is to be found at: http://www.delicious.com/stacks/view/GZAE1G.

See also the two reports reproduced on this website:

1. It’s the Little Things

2. M.I.S.-X Manual on Evasion, Escape, and Survival