Aerials snapped from "reconnaissance planes flying at *25 feet* [my
emphasis]." Surely that's a typo or a mistake.

On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 1:00 PM Christopher Thiry <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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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>


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