Rare genuine WWII Allied map La Haye du Puits, Sheet 6E/5, scale 1:50,000.
Third edition of 1943.
Drawn by the British Geographical Section-General Staff and initially published in 1942, the present map covers a large perimeter of the Cotentin Peninsula, including the tows of Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, Sainte-Mère-Église, La Haye-du-Puits and Carentan.
The area encompasses most of the Drop Zones of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions, as well as Le Mont Castre (Hill 122), where the 90th Infantry Division met a fierce German resistance in early July 1944.
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