[78-L] Have 78s ever been used for these military and intelligence agency pur poses?

[David Lennick]

On 5/31/2012 11:33 AM, Doug Duncan wrote:

> I understand that specially pressed 78s were used to smuggle escape
> material such as German money and maps into Prisoner of War camps during
> WW2. I have seen a photo of an example and it was HMV that did the
> pressing. The escape material came from MI9.
>
> Seemingly, at Colditz, the first such record was broken by accident and,
> unfortunately, a number of others were then broken without finding other
> helpful items.
>
> Doug

So THAT'S what happened to Zulu's Ball!

dl