An American map titled "Esso War Map II featuring the World Island, Fortress Europe." The map of Europe and North Africa shows transportation routes, pipe lines, air line distances, steamship distances, arctic stations, Soviet boundaries, international boundaries as of March 11, 1938, and other details of strategic importance. The inset shows boundary changes in Central Europe since 1938.
An American map titled "Metsker's Map of Benton County, State of Washington." The grid map shows highways, roads, railroads, trails, canals, intermittent creeks, schools, county lines, and other details. Annotations, in green ink, show the area along the Columbia River that the federal government seized in order to build facilities and housing for the Manhattan Project's Hanford Site.
An American map titled "Africa." The map shows railways, automobile and caravan routes, mountains, passes, deserts, swamps, elevations, wadies, oil pipe lines, boundaries as of September 1, 1939, and other details. Included is an inset map of the Cape Verde Islands and a relief map of Africa. This map is one of a set of maps that have been removed from an album titled "United States of America: United States Army Air Forces." Another note within the album read: "Prepared by Cartographic Branch, AC/AS-2 Intelligence."
An American map titled "Asia and Adjacent Areas." The map shows railways, ruins, oil pipe lines, passes, routes, relief, trails, elevations, deserts, glaciers, the Great Wall of China, boundaries as of September 1, 1939, and other details. This map is one of a set of maps that have been removed from an album titled "United States of America: United States Army Air Forces." Another note within the album read: "Prepared by Cartographic Branch, AC/AS-2 Intelligence."
An American map titled "Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies." The map shows highways, railways, canals, elevations, depths, mountains, swamps, ruins, areas subject to inundation, and other details. Included are inset maps of Cuba, Jamaica, Bermuda Islands, Puerto Rico, Saint Thomas, and the Isthmus of Panama. This map is one of a set of maps that have been removed from an album titled "United States of America: United States Army Air Forces." Another note within the album read: "Prepared by Cartographic Branch, AC/AS-2 Intelligence."
An American map titled "South America." The map shows railways, ruins, passes, falls, mountains, deserts, elevations, glaciers, salt pans, swamps, the Pan American Highway, principal ship routes, and other details. Included is an inset of the Galapagos Islands, as well as insets of South America showing chief natural resources, precipitation, temperature, airways, and relief.
An American map titled "Theater of War in Europe, Africa, and Western Asia." The map shows railways, oil pipe lines, canals, elevations, deserts, swamps, glaciers, tundra, altitudes, boundaries as of September 1, 1939, and other details. This map is one of a set of maps that have been removed from an album titled "United States of America: United States Army Air Forces." Another note within the album read: "Prepared by Cartographic Branch, AC/AS-2 Intelligence."
An American map titled "Esso War Map." The world map shows railroads, overland routes, air distances, steamship distances, deserts, mountain ranges, national boundaries, rivers, and canals. The inset shows a top view of the Arctic.
An American map titled "North America." The map shows ruins, railways, highways, naval bases, elevations, glaciers, mountains, and other details. Included is an inset of the Aleutian Islands. This map is one of a set of maps that have been removed from an album titled "United States of America: United States Army Air Forces." Another note within the album read: "Prepared by Cartographic Branch, AC/AS-2 Intelligence."
An American map titled "Atlantic Ocean." The map shows railways, transatlantic airways, naval bases, distances in nautical miles, depths, relief, swamps, glaciers, deserts, time zone boundaries, floating gulf weed, storm tracks, elevations, boundaries as of September 1, 1939, and other details. Included is an inset map of the Isthmus of Panama.