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RE: Another piece of history gone
Posted by: Rod ()
Date: April 13, 2001 06:59PM

<HTML>Tom.... as an adjunct to your comment about the mural..... in the E.B. Eddy paper mill in Espanola in Ontario is a very large (3 m. X 5 m.) map of the world painted by Luftwaffe POWs, from memory, in about 1941. They were moved and the mill reopened as a paper mill in 1943.
I saw the mural a few years ago, very impressive. The mill owners have covered it with Plexiglass to protect it, as it is in a main storage warehouse, with lots of forklift traffic.
There is an inset map, showing the British Isles, with all major airfields located exactly. However, the POWs were not so hot on Canadian geography, as the \"you-are-here\" notation is well off.
Another modest mural is in Fort Henry, in Kingston, Ont., where a number of POWs were held. Don\'t know which service they were from though.

Cheers
Rod</HTML>

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Another piece of history gone Torlef 04/13/2001 06:43AM
RE: Another piece of history gone Tom Iwanski 04/13/2001 03:08PM
RE: Another piece of history gone Rod 04/13/2001 06:59PM
RE: Another piece of history gone Craig McLean 04/15/2001 04:39AM
RE: Another piece of history gone Torlef 04/17/2001 05:45AM
RE: Another piece of history gone Craig McLean 04/17/2001 11:31AM
RE: Another piece of history gone Torstein 04/17/2001 11:13AM


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