World War II Records in the Cartographic and - National Archives ...

77.3. Other records produced or collected by AMS and its predecessors include
approximately 2,100 target charts of military targets throughout Europe, Japan, and
Tunisia (1942-45). In addition, there are two maps showing military objective areas
in the Philippines, the Netherlands East Indies, southeastern Asia, and Japan (1942);
four sheets of maps illustrating the German invasion of Poland ("Der Feldzug in
Polen") in September 1939; six maps of portions of northwest Europe showing
defended areas and areas of searchlight concentrations (1941-42); a map showing
positions of Chinese Communist and Japanese troops in northeast China (1944);
copies of eight maps produced by the Chinese Communists to illustrate military
situations in the coastal areas of China (1944); a copy of a 1941 Japanese map of
Guam; and a small number of maps showing defenses and troop positions in such
areas as Libya, Yugoslavia, the Canary Islands, Rhodes (Dodecanese Islands), and
Pantelleria and Lampedusa (Italy).
77.4. Also among the holdings are 42 "Strategic Engineering Studies" (SES)
prepared by the USGS and the Beach Erosion Board and published by the MID and
the Corps of Engineers (1943-45). These reports include numerous maps, aerial
photographic mosaics, ground-level photographs, and graphs, and describe in detail
certain geographic aspects of European, Far Eastern, and Pacific countries and island
groups of strategic importance. Included are terrain intelligence studies of Sicily,
Italy, France, the Balkan countries, China, Formosa, Japan, the Philippine Islands,
Borneo, the Bonin and Volcano Islands, and the Caroline Islands; landing beach
studies of Sicily, Italy, southern France, the Balkan countries, Netherlands New
Guinea, and the Philippines; studies of airfield sites, railroads, and mineral resources
in China; a study of electric power in Manchuria; and a study of aqueducts in Sicily.
Individual copies of the 32 landing beach maps for the Sicily SES (1943) are also in
the records, as are 27 coastal strip maps and landing beach maps of Spanish
Morocco and French Morocco (1942), all prepared by the Beach Erosion Board.
77.5. A number of maps and charts relate to transportation routes and facilities
throughout the world. Among these are a map showing land routes from India to
China (1942); a map showing the locations of defense industries and supply routes
within the U.S.S.R. (1941); a map of roads and railroads in Turkey (1941); a road
map of northwest Africa (1942); an aerial photo mosaic of the Burma Road (1943);
several maps showing airfields in Siberia and Alaska and northern approaches to
Japan (1943); maps of the Alcan Highway route and other road construction projects
in western Canada and Alaska (1942-43); a map showing the routes of the Air
Transport Command worldwide as of September 1945; four maps of landing field
areas in Greenland (1941); aerial navigation charts of the North Atlantic (1943); and
maps showing the locations of airfields in North Africa, the Middle East, the
U.S.S.R., the Far East, Indochina, occupied and unoccupied China (1943), Japan,
and the Southwest Pacific. Twenty-three reports on the locations and conditions of
airfields in Algeria and French Morocco include maps and aerial photographs of the
fields (1943).
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