WW2 US military maps

[Panzergrenadier2967]

How kind of maps used Americans during WW2?

[R Leonard]

Topographic, hydrographic (though correctly a “chart” not a “map”), photographic, planimetric, etc. On the other hand, perhaps you are looking for that upon which they were printed; paper, fabric, mylar, and so on, or constructed, such as a three-dimensional terrain map or a less than permanent sand table map, not to mention the ubiquitous, hand drawn, strip map usually on paper.

A google of US Army Mapping Service WW2 might serve.

How did US personnel use maps? Try a copy of FM21-26, see https://ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/ref/FM/ for the 1941 edition.

[Ivanhoe]

Here are links to WWII U.S. Army topographic maps that you can download. - Bill

France 1:50,000
http://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/f ... d_belgium/

France 1:100,000
http://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/france_100k/

Belgium 1:50,000
http://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/belgium_50k/