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Subject:	WWII maps
From:	Christopher Thiry <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Maps-L: Map Librarians, etc.
Date:	Fri, 21 Dec 2018 17:58:50 +0000
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All,

From "The Guns at Last Light: The War in the Western Europe 1944-1945" by Rick Atkinson.

"Armed guards from 10 cartography depots escorted 3,000 tons of maps for D-Day alone, the first of 210,000,000 maps that would be distributed in Europe, most of them printed in 5 colors.  Also into the holds [of the invasion fleet] went 280,000 hydrographic charts, town plats for the likes of Cherbourg and Saint-Lo, many of the 1,000,000 aerial photos of German defenses snapped from reconnaissance planes flying at 25 feet."

Happy New Year to all!

Christopher J.J. Thiry
Map & GIS Librarian
Academic Outreach Coordinator
Colorado School of Mines
Arthur Lakes Library
1400 Illinois
Golden, CO 80401
p. 303-273-3697
f. 303-273-3199
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http://www.mines.edu/library/

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