My dad's contribution to WWII

[chrisinhouston]

I've been going through all of the stuff I brought home from my parent's home in Atlanta since we now are selling it and found these. My father was in British intelligence during the war. He started out in Churchill's underground bunker marking maps for the PM. Because he spoke fluent Chinese (he grew up there) he was reassigned to the Burma campaign, but Burma fell before he got there and went on to the HQ in Ceylon and later Chungking. Dad came up with this idea to make maps out of silk for British and American pilots and anyone infiltrating behind Japanese lines; he got discarded parachute silk and had all sorts of maps made up. They were light weight and almost indestructible.

Anyway, these are the only 2 I know of. My mother must have made the second one up into a little apron for the kitchen! What a great fucking idea that was! Anyway, I am thinking of contacting the Imperial War Museum in the UK to see if they would be interested in having the unaltered one as I doubt they want the kitchen apron to display. It's a cool family thing to have but what would I really do with it? And would my kids or my grand kids care? It is kind of neat to wonder how many were helped by having these maps.