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WW2 Cotton Reel and Map Escape Equipment

15,000 cotton reels collected by Brownies were given to MI9, and had miniature silk maps, microfilm of contacts and German paper money hidden in them to help WW2 RAF prisoners of war if they escaped!

 

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