Need maps

[Kingfish]

Looking for 1:25,000 scale maps of Normandy, particularly the Villers Bocage / hill 112 / Baron area. I'm thinking there are a few old timers here who no longer play / design for CM, and have used IGN Blue series maps laying around.

E-mail me if you want to unload them.

[John D Salt]

Originally posted by Kingfish:

Looking for 1:25,000 scale maps of Normandy, particularly the Villers Bocage / hill 112 / Baron area. I'm thinking there are a few old timers here who no longer play / design for CM, and have used IGN Blue series maps laying around.

Be aware that the terrain around V-B has changed quite a bit since June 1944 (partly courtesy of Bomber Command).

All the best,

John.

[Kingfish]

[civdiv]

This is a site I found last week. Probably not what you are looking for, but it does have a street map of Villers-Bocage.

http://www.strategos.demon.co.uk/D-Day/Epsom.htm

[Kingfish]

Thanks. I already knew of that one, and in any event I have all of Desert Fox's Operation Perch maps, so I'm well covered in that sector.

I've changed my mind on what sector I plan on designing around, and am more interested now in the projected path of the 51st Highland division, as well as the 1st UK Airborne's LZs.

The gears are turning

[civdiv]

Originally posted by Kingfish:

Thanks. I already knew of that one, and in any event I have all of Desert Fox's Operation Perch maps, so I'm well covered in that sector.

I've changed my mind on what sector I plan on designing around, and am more interested now in the projected path of the 51st Highland division, as well as the 1st UK Airborne's LZs.

The gears are turning

Ok, a couple more that may be of help;

http://warlinks.com/armour/4th_armoured/index.html

and

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/A1951373

and here you may actually be able to ask some questions of the participants;

http://forums.wildbillguarnere.com/index.php?showtopic=8788

[John Kettler]

Kingfish,

The History Channel just reran D-Day: The Lost Evidence in which a wealth of previously unknown aerial photography figures prominently in reconstructing the invasion and the progress on the ground thereafter. Suggest that you contact the Channel and ask to be put in touch with the people who produced that program, for they can certainly direct you to the people with all that wonderful overhead imagery. Possibly, some here taped/Tivoed/DVRed it and can simply supply you with the name of the firm that actually made it, thus shortening your search process.

Regards,

John Kettler