Germany's Plans To Invade Britain
Germany's invasion map of Newcastle - Library of Congress
The High German innovation for invading United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland inwards World War II was code-named Operation Sea Lion. Although both Deutschland as well as United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland believed that an invasion was unlikely to succeed it didn't cease both sides from planning for a High German invasion of Britain. In Deutschland the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (Nazi High German Supreme Command of the Armed Forces) ordered that a serial of military machine as well as geographical assessments live on carried out inwards grooming for an invasion of Britain.
These assessments consisted of photographs, drawings as well as maps of British towns as well as military machine & strategic targets. In lodge to gear upwardly troops for the invasion of United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland a serial of maps of the reason were drawn up, identifying strategic locations, as well as military machine targets. Published inwards xi A4 sized folders these invasion plans included 144 maps of British towns as well as cities as well as over 1,500 photographs of fundamental military machine targets.
The maps as well as photos inwards these invasion plans highlighted locations which would live on of import for troop movements, such every bit airports, railways, docks as well as bridges. They included strategically of import sites, similar hospitals, airfields as well as radio stations. They besides identified of import infrastructure as well as industrial sites, for event waterworks as well as ability plants.
The High German invasion plans besides included photographs of fundamental strategic targets inwards each town.
Neue Strassenbrucke uber den Tyne inwards Newcastle upon Tyne - Library of Congress
The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection has interactive copies of the German invasion maps of Britain. These include both the maps as well as the photographs identifying Germany's military machine as well as strategic targets for the invasion. If you lot desire to detect the High German invasion map of your town as well as so expand the 'where' department inwards the sidebar to stance an alphabetized listing of links to the town maps.
The invasion maps were copies of Ordnance Survey maps on which the strategic as well as military machine targets were highlighted. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 elementary color-code was used when highlighting these targets. For example, bridges are highlighted inwards black. Railway as well as goods yards are highlighted inwards red. Purple is used to demo industrial sites, such every bit waterworks as well as ability plants.
As the High German maps were just copies of Ordnance Survey maps they would presumably non demo many of the country's hush-hush locations. Secret as well as classified buildings similar military machine locations as well as barracks were ofttimes omitted from Ordnance Survey maps at the administration of the British government. This is presumably why during the mutual frigidity state of war the Russian's created their ain maps.
During the mutual frigidity state of war the Soviet Union created detailed maps for thousands of cities just about the world. We don't know just how the Russian military machine completed their detailed maps of the west. Presumably they besides used freely available maps every bit the footing for their maps. However the Russian maps ofttimes incorporate military machine sites left off of western maps (for military machine secrecy), thus they must accept been based to some extent on noesis gained from spying as well as espionage.
John Davies has written an interesting article on the Soviet military machine maps for the British Library. Soviet Military Mapping of the Cold War Era includes to a greater extent than information virtually the composition of the Soviet military machine maps, the cities mapped as well as to a greater extent than informed speculation on how the maps were made.