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Stock# 63909
Description
6.5-Foot-Tall Battle-Used Map of Okinawa.
Impressive battlefield composite map of Okinawa, composed of numerous sections of SECRET Army Map Service sheets cut and pasted together to form one large image.
The map covers all of Okinawa, but for a small section of land in the southeast and northeast.
The map sheets show all of the potential landing beaches on the island, including the eventual main landing area (Beach Black, Green, etc.), and secondary landing sites away from the western beaches.
The sheets include a legend to the many defensive emplacements shown on the map:
- Coastal Defense Gun
- Coastal Defense Gun Emplacement (Empty)
- Single Mount Dual Purpose Gun (Gun Size 120MM-127MM)
- Single Mount Heavy AA (Gun Size Approx. 88MM)
- Heavy AA Emplacement (Empty) Dia. 16'-20'
- Single Mount Autom. AA (Gun Size 20MM - 40MM)
- Automatic AA Emplacement (Empty) Dia. 8'-6"
- Artillery Emplacement
- Artillery Emplacement (Empty)
- Pillbox
- Dual Purpose Gun Emplacement (Empty) Dia. 22'-36'
- Blockhouse
- Artillery Emplacement (Empty)
- Machine Gun Emplacement (13MM or Under)
- Radar
- Searchlight
- Earth Covered Structure or Buried Stores
- Unidentified Installation
- Empty Emplacement
- Trench
- Anti-Tank Trench
- Under Water Obstacle
- Radio Direction Finder
- Radio Tower
- Lighthouse
- Radio Station
Provenance
Carried at the Battle of Okinawa by an American soldier.
