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The Army Map Service (AMS) was the military cartographic agency of the United States Department of Defense from 1941 to 1968, subordinated to the United States Army Corps of Engineers. On September 1, 1968, the AMS was redesignated the U.S. Army Topographic Command (USATC) and continued as an independent organization until January 1, 1972, when ...
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a combat support agency within the United States Department of Defense whose primary mission is collecting, analyzing, and distributing geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) in support of national security. Initially known as the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) from 1996 to 2003, it is ...
Military Mapping Maidens. During World War II the Army Map Service (AMS), a heritage organization of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, was losing a significant amount of its workforce at a time when demand for its products was surging. "Military Mapping Maidens," also known colloquially as "3Ms," stepped in to create maps to aid war ...
WIG maps were also a basis for the American AMS (Army Map Service) maps of Poland in the scale 1:100,000 produced from 1944 onwards, as well as for the British 1:250,000 and 1:500,000 air maps of Poland from the same period. After World War II, AMS also produced in 1952 a set of 1:25,000 maps of Poland (AMS 851 series), which was a melange of ...
English: Composite by the uploader of two 1943 US Army Map Service Series L571 maps (Sheet 34 (Yamaguchi) and Sheet 46 (Oita), thus showing the location of Ōzushima (marked as Ōtsushima); original pair of images from the Perry–Castañeda Library Map Collection, The University of Texas at Austin
Construction. The earthwork fort was an 1863 expansion of Fort Alexander, Fort Ripley, and Fort Franklin, which were built to protect the Washington Aqueduct, the new water supply for the city, and the adjacent Potomac River shoreline. [1][2] Fort Sumner was named for Major General Edwin Vose Sumner, who died in 1863 from fever he contracted ...
English: Series L506, U.S. Army Map Service, 1953 - NI 53-5 Hiroshima, 1:250,000; image from the Perry–Castañeda Library Map Collection, The University of Texas at Austin Date 1953
English: Composite by the uploader of twelve U.S. Army Map Service maps (Series L506, U.S. Army Map Service, 1954-) to show the islands between Hokkaido and Kamchatka (Kuril Islands, etc); original images here; from the Perry–Castañeda Library Map Collection, The University of Texas at Austin. From bottom left to top right: