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Misc: Allied maps of the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy during World War Two


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA MISC 59

Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

Title: Misc: Allied maps of the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy during World War Two

Date(s): 1940-1944

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 5 boxes or 0.05 cubic metres

Name of creator(s): Geographical Section, General Staff, War Office; Army Map Service, US Army

CONTEXT

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CONTENT

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World War Two maps of the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy, produced by the Geographical Section, General Staff and the Army Map Service, US Army, including one inch to the one mile ordnance survey maps of England and Wales produced by the Geographical Section, General Staff, including of London, Bath and Bristol, Cardiff and the mouth of the Severn, Windsor, the Isle of Wight, Weymouth and Dorchester, Bolton and Manchester, 1940-1942; one inch to the one mile ordnance survey maps of British counties produced by the Geographical Section, General Staff, 1940-1942; 1:250,000 and 1:500,000 scale maps of Germany produced by the Geographical Section, General Staff, including of Kiel, Hamburg, Halle, Leipzig, Lubeck, Bremen, Frankfurt-am-Main, Hannover, Osnabrück, Magdeburg, Schwerin, and Munich; Army Map Service, US Army 1:200,000 road maps of France copied from 1939 Michelin guide including of the Carcassonne-Nimes, Avignon-Digne, Auxerre-Dijon, Mons- Luxembourg, and Lyon-Geneve areas, 1943-1944; 1:100,000 map of Utrecht, Netherlands, 1:50,000 map of Arnhem, Netherlands, and 1:250,000 map of Amsterdam, Netherlands, produced by the Geographical Section, General Staff, 1940-1944; 1:250,000 maps of Italy produced by the Geographical Section, General Staff, including of Bologna, Firenze, Genova, and Siena, 1943

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

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Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Summary guide entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and available in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Presented to the Centre in 1996 by Dr Steve Weiss, Department of War Studies, King's College London

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Date(s) of descriptions: Nov 1999


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armed forces | State security
Maps | Visual materials
War | International conflicts
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
International relations
Military organizations

Personal names

Corporate names
Army Map Service
US Army

Places
Amsterdam | Netherlands | Western Europe | Europe
Arnhem | Netherlands | Western Europe | Europe
Avignon | France | Western Europe | Europe
Bath | Somerset | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Bologna | Italy | Western Europe | Europe
Bolton | Lancashire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Bremen | Germany | Western Europe | Europe
Bristol | Avon | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Carcassonne | France | Western Europe | Europe
Cardiff | Glamorgan | Wales | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Dijon | France | Western Europe | Europe
Dorchester | Dorset | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Florence | Italy | Western Europe | Europe
Frankfurt | Germany | Western Europe | Europe
Geneva | Switzerland | Western Europe | Europe
Genoa | Italy | Western Europe | Europe
Halle | Germany | Western Europe | Europe
Hamburg | Germany | Western Europe | Europe
Hannover | Germany | Western Europe | Europe
Isle of Wight | Hampshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Kiel | Germany | Western Europe | Europe
Leipzig | Germany | Western Europe | Europe
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Lubeck | Germany | Western Europe | Europe
Luxembourg | Western Europe | Europe
Lyon | France | Western Europe | Europe
Manchester | Lancashire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Munich | Germany | Western Europe | Europe
Nimes | France | Western Europe | Europe
Schwerin | Germany | Western Europe | Europe
Severn, river | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Siena | Italy | Western Europe | Europe
Utrecht | Netherlands | Western Europe | Europe
Weymouth | Dorset | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Windsor | Berkshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe