Normandy/Ile de France. World War 2 pre-D-Day military intelligence map 1943

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Artist/engraver/cartographer: -. Provenance: Geographical Section, General Staff No 4042. Published by the War Office, 1938. 2nd edition 1943 [War Office]. Type: Second World War pre D-Day Military Intelligence map. Includes reliability diagram. The map was published by the (British) War Office in 1943, with magnetic north dated to June 1943 - a year before the D-Day landings. Road diagrams are stated to be based on Michelin Tourist Maps revised through to 1939; the map includes a reliability diagram showing parts of the map later revised from air photographs. The D-Day landing beaches are situated just to the west of this map section. The Allied armies began to break out of the landing area and east through the area covered by this map during August 1944.

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Size: 8809px × 7266px
Location: France
Photo credit: © Antiqua Print Gallery / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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