During World War II it had two principal tasks: assisting in the escape of Allied prisoners of war (POWs) held by the Axis countries, especially Nazi Germany; and helping Allied military personnel, especially downed airmen, evade capture after they were shot down or trapped behind enemy lines in Axis-occupied countries. [1]

M.I.9 stands for Military Intelligence, Section 9, and was an ingenious branch of Second World War military intelligence, tasked with assisting evaders and escapers. Established on 23 December 1939, M.I.9 was based for most of the war at Wilton Park, Beaconsfield.

MI9 is best known for the daring exploits of escape and evasion by soldiers and airmen in the Second World War. New research uncovered in declassified files by Eye Spy associate editor and historian Dr Helen Fry now adds to the superb histories of MI9 written after the war by Airey Neave, and Foot and Langley.

MI9 was established on 23 December 1939 as a new branch of British intelligence to provide escape and evasion support, and to facilitate the return of British prisoners of war and others who...

Neutral Spain and Portugal were to be key to freedom for many escapers and evaders with the establishment of the first formal MI9 escape line via Gibraltar in the summer of 1940. Claude Dansey offered to help MI9 on the escape lines in a gesture that …

2018年4月14日 · During WWII, thousands of combatants were taken prisoner by their opponents. To help Allied troops who had been captured and to get the best possible advantage from any information they might have, the British established MI9, a secret organization dedicated to working with Allied prisoners of war (POWs).

The clandestine techniques of MI9 enabled hundreds of British and Allied forces to return to Britain through the escape and evasion lines that criss-crossed occupied Europe. Critical to this success were the hundreds of thousands of maps that were given to airmen, special forces and other units who were going into action.

These are British and Commonwealth escapers and evaders listed by their MI9 report numbers.

Two days before Christmas 1939 a new branch of Military Intelligence, MI9, was established. Its charter was to advise combat personnel on how to evade capture, how to behave when a prisoner of war, how to plan escapes and how to secretly communicate with home.