SZ/OEMU/4/1/21 - [Letter, Audrey Russell to SZ, 9/9/40]

Reference code

SZ/OEMU/4/1/21

Level of description

Item

Title

[Letter, Audrey Russell to SZ, 9/9/40]

Date/s

1940

Quantity & Format

1 leaf Letters (typescript)

Personal name

Kretschmeyer, Carol

Subject

Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939

Creator

Russell, Audrey,

Creator

Zuckerman, Solly, 1904-1993

Administrative/Biographical history

recipient

Scope and content

Russell informs SZ that during [the Spanish Civil War], officials in Barcelona issued the instruction to keep the mouth open during air-raids, rather than the instinctive reaction to clench teeth and hold breath. Russell understood at the time that this action allowed breath to escape from the lungs and the chest wall could absorb some of the blast. Russell will ask Carol Kretschmeyer if he knows any more about it.

SZ - Zuckerman Archive
- SZ/OEMU - Ministry of Home Security, Oxford Extra-Mural Unit
  - SZ/OEMU/4 - [OEMU. Blast, human]
    - SZ/OEMU/4/1 - [OEMU. Blast, human. General]
      - SZ/OEMU/4/1/21 - [Letter, Audrey Russell to SZ, 9/9/40]

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