23 maps of Borneo from Series AMS T532
Washington DC: Army Map Service, 1945. 23 broadside color maps; each about 22.25 x 20 in., 1:250.000 scale, covering two separate regions: North Borneo including part of Brunei, and Southeast Borneo from Samarinda to Kualakapuas and inland to Boentok. All maps in fine condition. Maps included are: NB-49 X; NB-50 I, J, O, P, Q, R, S, V, W; NA-50-D; SA-50-C, D, G, H, I, M, N, O, S, T, U; SB-50-A. 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 #70379
Price: $600.00
