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."
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