9 maps from AMS map series L582 (Inner China)
Washington D.C. Army Map Service, 1945. 9 broadside maps, approx. 22½" x 20", 1:250,000 scale; showing roadways, trainlines, borders, settlements, and elevation, a few maps soiled, but otherwise largely fine. Includes the following maps: Li-Hsien (H-49-P); Chao-T'ung (G-48-B); Kuei-Ting (Kan-Ch'i) (G-48-L); En-Shih (H-49-H); Lang-Chung (H-48-D); Pa-Chung (H-48-E); Wu-Shih-Chiang (F-49-T); Lai-Feng (H-49-N); Peng-Shui (H-49-M). Covering portions of the border area between China and Vietnam, and sections of Szechuan Province. 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. Their work formed the basis of the many silk escape maps provided to soldiers. Item #70449
Price: $300.00
