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    Inter-Service Topographical Department World War II map collection The Inter-Service Topographic Department collection contains 1045 maps, aerial photographs, and drawings from World War II. The ISTD (1940-1946) was a joint British army and navy program that supplied topographic intelligence for all combined British military operations. The department was created following the failed British invasion of Norway (April 9 - May 9, 1940), during which British army and navy intelligence units operated independently...
    • Contributor: Great Britain. Inter-Service Topographical Department
    • Date: 1940
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    Charles Lee Burwell collection of materials related to World War II The Charles Lee Burwell Collection consists of one model, consisting of rubber on foam backing, prepared for "Operation Overlord," the Allied invasion of Utah Beach, Normandy, France; and an operational plan, maps, aerial photography, and photographs assembled by Burwell in preparation for "Operation Anvil," an amphibious landing of Allied troops on the southern coast of France in August 1944.
    • Contributor: Burwell, Charles Lee
    • Date: 1944
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    John Leonard Hines map collection The John Leonard Hines map collection consists of maps of World War I, including annotated tactical maps; maps of Mexico related to Hines' part in the Mexican Punitive Expedition; maps of Asia, as Hines was stationed in the Philippines; maps of military camps in the United States; maps of the Allied occupation of the German Rhineland, where Hines was stationed; and maps related to...
    • Contributor: Hines, John Leonard
    • Date: 1906
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    Wallace E. Dreyer World War II map collection The Wallace Earl Dryer World War II map collection consists of Army Map Service maps of Italy and Northwest Europe, a Dutch map of the Western Front, and a German map of Holland. Dryer served in the American army and was a painter and photographer after the war.
    • Date: 1941
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    David L. Quaid World War II map collection The collection consists of 21 photocopied maps that are annotated and depict operations of Merrill's Marauders during World War II. Maps labeled 1 to 7 concern the Marauder's 1944 campaign in Burma, in which the unit captured the Japanese airfield at Myitkyina.
    • Contributor: Quaid, L. David
    • Date: 1940
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    Wallace Atwood Jr. map collection Wallace served in the Army as director of the topographic model section of the Army Map Service during World War II. The collection consists of photographs of terrain models showing locations within the European, African, and Asian theaters of operation.
    • Contributor: Atwood, Wallace Walter, Jr
    • Date: 1941
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    Charles Pelot Summerall map collection The collection consists of manuscript maps, annotated printed maps, printed maps, photocopied maps, and captured German maps compiled or created by the American general Charles Pelot Summerall. Chiefly from World War I, the maps show battles and campaigns, including the Meuse-Argonne, Saint Mihiel, and Verdun. The collection also includes maps of Camp Zachary Taylor, Fort Bragg, and ports in the southeastern United States. Additionally,...
    • Contributor: Summerall, Charles Pelot
    • Date: 1889
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    Peter L. Stark World War II map collection The collection consists of three items, which includes a guide to reading aerial photography, a book of photomaps of Central Luzon, and an AAF Cloth Chart of the East China Sea.
    • Contributor: Stark, Peter L. (Peter Leroy)
    • Date: 1942
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    J.F. Sanders World War II aeronautical chart collection The collection consists of fourteen sectional aeronautical charts that date to World War II and depict locations within the United States.
    • Date: 1943
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    War map : pictorial and propaganda map collection 1900-1950 A collection of 180 pictorial and propaganda maps that illustrate events related to World War I, the interwar years, World War II, the formation of the United Nations, and the Cold War. While many of the pieces were created as governmental propaganda, others appeared in commercial publications, including the Star Weekly, Fortune Magazine, the Daily Mail, and the Los Angeles Examiner. Some of the...
    • Contributor: Chase, Ernest Dudley - Clegg, Ernest - Stiles, Ezra C. - Manning, F. E. - Harrison, Richard Edes - Rose, Fred. W. (Frederick W.) - Kampf, Arthur
    • Date: 1900
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    Robert Clift World War II map and papers collection Robert Clift served as a navigator in the 492nd Bomb Group during World War II. The second lieutentant flew on missions from February 22 to April 26 in Europe. He took part in hazardous, low-level insertion missions of Allied agents behind enemy lines. His unit received a citation from the War Department in 1947. The collection consists of a map that illustrates sixteen missions...
    • Contributor: Clift, Robert
    • Date: 1945
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    Marshall Ryder World War II aeronautical chart collection The collection consists of 26 aeronautical charts that date to World War II. Among them are 16 charts that depict locations in Europe and 8 that depict locations in the United States. The materials were compiled by Marshall Ryder, who served in the U.S. Troop Carrier Command during World War II. He was aboard a C-47 that dropped paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division...
    • Contributor: Ryder, Marshall
    • Date: 1940
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    J. Thomas Schneider map collection The collection consists of three maps. Two maps depict the Western Front during World War I and the other map depicts military bases in the United States in 1917.
    • Contributor: Schneider, J. Thomas (John Thomas)
    • Date: 1917
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    Herman R. Friis cartographic manuals collection The Hermann R. Friis collection contains cartographic manuals published by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Army, War Department, and Geological Survey. A number of the manuals are from World War II, which discuss aerial photographs and military map symbols. Maps in the manuals include: the world, North America, the United States, Montana, Scandinavia, and France, among others. These maps exemplify different cartographic techniques.
    • Contributor: Friis, Herman R. (Herman Ralph)
    • Date: 1905
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    Peyton Conway March map collection Peyton Conway March was the Chief of Staff of American forces in World War I. This collection of maps and textual materials were created for teaching the principles of coordinating and directing artillery fire.
    • Contributor: March, Peyton Conway
    • Date: 1916
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    Maps showing entrenchments in France during World War I at a scale of 1:10,000 The collection consists of 156 maps from World War I created by American and French forces that show trenches and related military information in France. Maps are scaled at 1:10,000. Data taken from aerial photography ("tranchées d'après photos ... ") and observation ("Schématique d'apres renseignements"). Some maps are in color and are sized at 100 x 100 cm or smaller. Relief shown by contours...
    • Contributor: France. Armée. Service Géographique
    • Date: 1916
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    Solomon Mullin World War II map collection The Solomon Mullin World War II map collection contains 23 annotated flak maps of Western Europe that depict German anti-craft fire upon American bombers from July 1944 to April 1945. Additional war records include five of Solomon Mullin's flight plans, five documents related to his military service, and a receipt of donation.
    • Contributor: Mullin, Solomon
    • Date: 1945
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    William A. Bostick World War II charts and maps collection William A. Bostick World War II charts and maps collection consists of facsimiles of cartographic illustrations prepared for the 1945 book The Ampibious Sketch: Its Function in Amphibious Training and Operations. The items illustrate Utah and Omaha beaches, where American forces landed during the Normandy invasion in 1944. On verso are sunlight and moonlight tables, beach gradient graphs, and current and tidal data. Transperancy...
    • Contributor: Bostick, William A.
    • Date: 1944
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    World War II unit route maps collection, 1944-1945 The World War II unit route maps collection consists of maps created by individual U.S. military units commemorating and outlining their movements, engagements, and routes of travel during the second World War. The maps primarily depict historical and geographic landmarks and major events pictorially. Most maps were created by units of the U.S. Army at the division and battalion level, and many are undated,...
    • Date: 1944
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    The Office of Strategic Services maps on microfilm collection A microfilm collection of maps that were used by The Office of Strategic Services in World War II. The maps provide coverage for all continents with strong emphasis on Europe and Southeast Asia. The maps depict political or physical features. The OSS needed to quickly build a map library quickly and acquired maps represented in this collection from the American Geographical Society in New...
    • Contributor: United States. Office of Strategic Services
    • Date: 1919
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    Ian Mumford World War II cartographic intelligence reports collection The collection contains nine British intelligence cartographic reports created during World War II. The areas covered by the reports include Germany, Italy, and France, among other places in Europe. The reports are supplemented with aerial photographs and are arranged by sortie number. The collection also contains three British government manuals, which include maps, that relate to the history of the British Ordnance Survey.
    • Contributor: Mumford, Ian
    • Date: 1939
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    Jack Eshe World War II aeronautical charts collection Jack Eshe was an American B-17 bomber pilot in World War II. He donated a collection of 13 G.S.G.S aeronautical charts of Great Britain, France, and Germany. The charts were published during the war. Also included in the collection is a "Time Distance Computer, Type 4... Property of the U.S. Army." It was used to compute true altitude and true air speed.
    • Date: 1942
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    Diroca World War II map collection The collection consists of 21 maps from Newsmap, The Times Atlas, Time Magazine, and others that depict World War II. Some maps contain supporting textual information. Also included is an atlas of Italian territorial claims following World War I.
    • Date: 1918
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    Willard B. Prince collection of World War I maps and related materials The Willard B. Prince collection of World War I maps and related materiels contains Prince's wartime diary, manuscript maps, printed maps, postcards, photographs, letters, personal papers, military reports, and other materials. Sgt. Major Willard B. Prince served as a mapmaker in the 5th Division of the United States Army during World War I. After the war, Prince worked for the Downtown Athletic Club and...
    • Contributor: Prince, Willard B. - Stevenson, Kenyon
    • Date: 1917
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    Frank Farrell map collection Frank Farrell served in the Marine Corps as an interrogator and prosecutor for the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, Shanghai, China. His collection includes a map from World War II that depicts the military situation in China, maps of Guangxi Province, and various tourist maps. Some maps have annotations on the reverse in English and French and other maps are in Chinese.
    • Contributor: Farrell, Frank
    • Date: 1930