Maps

University of Texas Libraries. Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection.

Library of Congress Digital Collections: World War II Military Situation Maps. This collection contains maps showing troop positions beginning on June 6, 1944 to July 26, 1945.  Starting with the D-Day Invasion, the maps give daily details on the military campaigns in Western Europe, showing the progress of the Allied Forces as they push towards Germany. – https://www.loc.gov/collections/world-war-ii-maps-military-situation-maps-from-1944-to-1945

Pritzker Military Museum & Library’s collection: Explore more than 13,000 digitized items including a selection of prints, posters, original artwork, artifacts, manuscripts and documents, maps, photographs, and negatives from the Pritzker Military Museum & Library’s collection. – https://cdm16630.contentdm.oclc.org/

WWII Strategic Maps from the Digital Archive at McMaster University Library. – http://digitalarchive.mcmaster.ca/islandora/object/macrepo%3A66651

World War II Captured Maps : Further Reading and Resources. The purpose of this guide is to introduce researchers to the scope of the World War II Captured Maps in the UB Libraries Map Collection. Additional resources about captured maps are provided, as well.

UC Berkeley German World War II Captured Maps. During World War II and in its immediate aftermath the U.S. Army Map Service (AMS) acquired large quantities of captured German World War II maps which were important planning tools for the war of aggression waged by the Nazi regime and document the exploitation of resources in Nazi-occupied territories. These maps proved invaluable to U.S. military planners during the early Cold War years, particularly German military map series covering eastern and southeastern Europe. By the mid-1950s, however, the U.S. Army Map Service started to deposit these German maps in U.S. research libraries. Today the German World War II maps form important legacy collections in many American map libraries, including the UC Berkeley Library map collection. After 1945, U.S. map libraries largely focused on cataloging and promoting the English-language American AMS and British GSGS World War II maps. Resource descriptions created for German World War II military map series were rudimentary at best and even today generally consist of bare bones cataloging records that lack access points and commonly include mis-attributions. As a result, in many ways the holdings of German World War II military map series in American map libraries represent hidden collections.

National Library of Scotland. Belgium – Second World War military mapping. These maps were created by the Geographical Section of the General Staff (GSGS) and were used by the Allies during the Second World War. GSGS 4042 (1:250,000) – 1937-42, GSGS 4336 (1:100,000) and GSGS 4040 (1:50,000) – 1943-44.

German World War II Maps from the National Archives. One of the newly opened series is German Situation Maps of the Western Front, 1944-1945 (NAID 40432392). This series contains German maps that display the locations of the Allied armies at different times in 1944 and 1945.

Detailed topographical U.S. Army maps of France and Belgium produced during WWII, related to the 134th Infantry Regiment (35th Infantry Division).