23 maps of Borneo from Series AMS T531
Washington DC: Army Map Service, 1944. First edition, 23 color broadside maps, each about 22 x 20 in.; 1:200,000 scale, covering the western section of the series, from XI-XII 42-43 to XXVII-XXVIII 48-49, lacking XI-XII 44-45, XIII-XIV 44-45, XIII-XIV 50-51, XV-XVI 42-43, XV-XVI 44-45, XVII-XVIII 42-43, XVII-XVIII 44-45, and XIV-XX 44-45. Geographical region covered is the west coast, From Kuching to Soekamara, and some outlying islands. Each map is numbered in marker on the bottom left margin, otherwise clean and near fine. The Army Map Service was the primary map producing body of the US Military through WWII. Service cartographers, many of them women recruited after Pearl Harbor, produced 40,000 maps covering 400,000 miles between 1941 and 1945. (LoC) Their work formed the basis of silk escape maps provided to soldiers. Item #70378
Price: $600.00
