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Great pod today - @wehaveways – chewing the cud in Burma. Got me thinking about mapping for the country and all that jungle. Who did it? And in 1942, how good was it?
(These are 1954 HMSO issues, done for illustrative purposes, little more.)
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(These are 1954 HMSO issues, done for illustrative purposes, little more.)
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Start big. Overviews are useful. This one is a public domain, US Army-sourced map showing the transportation routes across the China-Burma-India theatre between 1942-1943. It ain't all that. But...
... to my mind, the pre-war maps are where to start. They can be a real help (@robert_lyman's superb book has made these names familiar, but - check these out - it’s the ‘red numbers’ correlating the areas, that helped me understand who moved where. Mimbu, Meiktila etc.)
