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PostPosted: Tue Nov 23, 2021 2:56 am 
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I have unintentionally started collecting WWII Navy Target Maps & Approach Charts as used by Navy pilots in their chartboards. I have uploaded approximately 350 of them to the NAR-PAC website in the Targets section. Attached are a few examples.

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That is very cool!
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Super cool Mac

Dad has a large collection of maps as well. Very interesting stuff.

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 24, 2021 3:07 am 
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I'm glad to share them with everyone. They don't do anybody any good sitting in a box here. I also have 55 large wall maps, mainly of the Okinawa area. Just need to figure out how to get them scanned. There's no Kinko type store around here and it will probably take a large scale blueprint type plotter with scanning ability to get them done.

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I have a collection of WW2 silk "escape maps" of the China region. Not sure what to do with them...


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Jim MacDonald wrote:
I have unintentionally started collecting WWII Navy Target Maps & Approach Charts as used by Navy pilots in their chartboards. I have uploaded approximately 350 of them to the NAR-PAC website in the Targets section.

Amazing work! :drink3: Thanks for putting in the effort to make these available!

On the subject of maps, McMaster University has a collection of digitized aeronautical charts - including 1:1 world aeronautical charts and cloth charts. Also, not World War II, but just the other day I came across a set of aeronautical strip maps of the United States available online from the Library of Congress.

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I have a collection of WW2 silk "escape maps" of the China region. Not sure what to do with them...

For reference, there used to be two excellent websites on the subject called "US Cloth Maps of World War II" and "WWII Escape Maps", but as I unfortunately found out while looking them up for this post they have both gone offline. Fortunately, there's archived versions (1, 2) available.

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It's my pleasure, Noha. Hopefully, they'll be of some interest and use for someone.

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