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War Department Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army [Photo-map index]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09557.02 Author/Creator: War Department Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army Place Written: s.l. Type: Map Date: March 1944 Pagination: 2 maps ; 50 x 45 cm. Order a Copy

A two-sided photo-map index of the English Channel. One side of the map shows Cherbourg, France, the English Channel, and Grande Rade. There is a grid over the map labled 1 to 29 on the y-axis and A to O on the x-axis. The reverse side of the map shows incidence of grid letters in red, blue, and purple. There are two copies of this map in the collection.

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