Catalogue description Special Operations Executive: Station 15b Exhibition: Photographs

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Reference: HS 10
Title: Special Operations Executive: Station 15b Exhibition: Photographs
Description:

This series contains a photograph album prepared to record the work of SOE station 15b, as shown in a war-time display mounted in the 'Demonstration Room' in the Natural History Museum. The album contains photographs of exhibits in the display, together with hand-drawn plans of the exhibition layout. These concern the equipment developed by Station 15b used to carry out covert operations behind enemy lines.

Date: 1940-1946
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Foreign Office, Special Operations Executive, 1945-1946

Ministry of Economic Warfare, Special Operations Executive, 1940-1945

Physical description: photograph(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

In 2004 Secret Intelligence Service

Custodial history: This album was in the custody of the Imperial War Museum between 1992 and 2004.
Accumulation dates: File series ran between 1939 and 1946
Selection and destruction information: Selected under acquisition policy 2.2.1.3, showing the layout and displays of SOE exhibits. All surviving photographs selected.

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