Battle Maps Battle of Bulge

[Von Hoth]

I found this in a pawn shop. For every 40 times I walk into a pawn shop I sometimes find one interesting thing.

I have never seen one of these before so I would appreciate someone helping me out if they know what these are exactly. It's a very large hardbacked book of battle maps. It is dated January 1945 so it's wartime. It shows enemy attacks and allied counterattacks and details the battle of the Bulge day by day starting With December 21, 1944. Each map is a different day and shows specific german advances. It even lists Sepp, Otto Skorenzy, 2nd SS panzer, with specific losses, etc.


It is very large, about 2 feet by two feet and the hardbacks that sandwhich the colorful maps are rugged like it's for field use. The daughter of the pawn shop say's it was her grandfather's. His name was Paul W Jackson out of Ft. Benning GA. He is long since passed away. She called her grandma (the widow) while I was there and wrote down that he was surrounded and then relieved by the 3rd army.

has anyone heard of Paul W. Jackson in the U.S. army? I would be interested in finding out if this Major or General was with the American party that responded to the German's terms of surrender with......... "Nutts!!!"

[Larry deZeng]

It looks like the 664th Engineer Topographical Co. (Corps) drew them up from staff operations maps for the purpose of preserving the data for the War Department historical office back in Washington. The field units had all been told to save their stuff for postwar historical review pending the writing of the history of the U.S. Army in World War II. That is what later became the many volumed "Green Series" written by the Office of the Chief of Military History on Constitution Avenue in D.C.

[Von Hoth]

thanks for the info.

I appreciate it.