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2 items (originally in file concerning transport targets in enemy-occupied countries)...
Catalogue reference: MPK 1/377
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This record is about the 2 items (originally in file concerning transport targets in enemy-occupied countries)... dating from 1944 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MPK 1/377
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1944
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Description (What the record is about)
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2 items (originally in file concerning transport targets in enemy-occupied countries) extracted from FO 837/385. Maps of Germany and occupied territory (also covering areas that are now Austria and the Czech Republic, and parts of Poland, the Russian Federation and Slovakia), showing towns, roads, railways, etc. Reference table to item 2. Scale to item 2: 3.4 inches to 100 miles. Item 2 compiled and drawn in the Research and Analysis Branch, OSS, 8 April 1944. Insets to item 2, showing: Ruhr valley industrial area; junctions near Cologne, Trier and Gleiwitz (now Gliwice, Poland); the Klagenfurt - Ljubljana - Villach area. MS additions, coloured, showing areas selected as bomb targets: (1) transportation targets; MS reference table to ordnance depots, and motor transport and armoured field vehicles factories; (2) industrial targets, including major oil production installations, and communications targets; reference table to the additions is attached. Dimensions: (1) 68 cm x 92 cm; (2) 60 cm x 79 cm.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Map scale (The scale of a map, plan or drawing)
- 1:1863530
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 4. Europe and Turkey, ed Geraldine Beech (London, 1998), entry 1584.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3980398/
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