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PDF – Sale Price $19.00 USD
This is the two-mile square grid* version of my map of the D-Day beaches, the whole Cotentin Peninsula with enough terrain inland to cover the campaign from June 6 through most of July 1944…
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This super-detailed map is based on a Michelin 1947 road map of Normandy (which was sold to returning veterans) with three levels of roads, town blocks and names, rivers, beaches (low and high tide lines), gridded hexes or squares plus tons of info added: 20-meter contour levels, with capital ship anchorages (new in this edition!), naval gunfire range limits, forts, forests, swamps, drop/beach zones, bocage areas.
Note: The map itself is identical in all versions – the only variation is the grid's shape and the grid cells' size (and a no-grid version). Each square on this map is two miles wide.
The thumbnail "cover" image shows the whole map you are buying at the bottom, and an enlarged portion is around Pointe du Hoc. Now, that would make a great campaign game! Fight up the cliffs with a relatively small force, and then fight your way inland with less troop density.
How big is it? If you enlarge the map's scale to 1 kilometer per inch, the full map would be just over 5 x 12.5 feet in size. One assumes that most gamers will just print portions for a campaign series of games or reduce somewhat a big-scale game like the one shown on Little Wars TV.
The map's actual size is 36.666" high by 90" wide and can be reduced or enlarged. When enlarged, the detail will not get grainy/fuzzy because it was drawn with "vectors" in Adobe Illustrator. The 3 to 4 megabyte map file comes as a PDF, which can be opened in the free program Adobe Acrobat Reader.
This digital PDF edition has more features and utility than my pre-printed sections that I have sold hundreds of over the years. Bookmarks allow you to easily move around on the PDF map while zoomed in. Less expensive and more flexible than buying my pre-printed versions.
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* Unlike the other eight D-Day Map versions, this two-mile square grid positioning is the same as the Normandy Campaign (green land and dark blue land) designed for Sam Mustafa's Eisenhower. The grid starts 1.5 miles from the left edge and.5 mile below the top edge.
I offer nine map versions for D-Day: multi-colored contour style with different-sized hexes and squares and one version with no grid.