Escape Kits Hid Maps in Playing Cards, Board Games, and Cloth
Some POW escape aids were disguised with an inventiveness that bordered on stagecraft.
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Some POW escape aids were disguised with an inventiveness that bordered on stagecraft.
Open entryA good forged identity document depended on stamps, paper, signatures, and a feel for what officials expected to see.
Open entrySmall boats and local seamanship could become lifelines for couriers, refugees, and intelligence traffic.
Open entryNot every act of resistance announced itself with explosives; sometimes it hid in maintenance, timing, or paperwork.
Open entryBehind every successful forged identity card was a chain of judgment, handwriting, delivery, and luck.
Open entryHer service, capture, and death feel especially haunting because they are contained within such a brief span of life.
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