Through France with the 79th Infantry Division, 14 June to 29 Aug, 1944 /
Shows towns, river, forests, along the route of the U.S. Army 79th Infantry Division as it moved from a 14 June 1944 landing on the Normandy shore near St. Mere Eglise, moved toward Cherbourg, fighting its way to reach and cross the Seine river "on the darkest, rainiest Aug 19 on record."
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| Format: | Map |
| Language: | English |
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[not before 1945]
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| Online Access: | http://digitalarchives.pritzkermilitarylibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16630coll2/id/1516 |
| Summary: | Shows towns, river, forests, along the route of the U.S. Army 79th Infantry Division as it moved from a 14 June 1944 landing on the Normandy shore near St. Mere Eglise, moved toward Cherbourg, fighting its way to reach and cross the Seine river "on the darkest, rainiest Aug 19 on record." |
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| Item Description: | Map no.1 [of 4]. Cartographer names from facsimile signatures lower right corner. Printed in large outline letters in margin surrounding map (reading clockwise): Camp Pickett, Camp Blanding, Tennessee, Camp Forrest, California, Arizona Desert, Camp Phillips, Poe, England, Sainte Mere Eglise, Valognes, Cherbourg, La Haye Du Putts, Lessay, Avranches, Fougeres, Laal, Le Mans, La Mesle sur Sarthe, Nogent Le Roi, Mantes Gassicourt, Seine. Illustrated with four colored vignettes showing troops and landing craft in the English channel moving to the Normany shore of France; Fort Du Roule; rubbled town walls at St. Lo; troops in a truck with a tank escort moving toward Le Mans, a dark night scene with troops crossing a river on a bridge at the Seine. "Maj Gen I.T. Wyche, Commanding". |
| Physical Description: | 1 map : color ; 67 x 86 cm |