Minefield paperwork
 

Accedently deleted the thread when I was messing around tonight, so reposted it.


This is a WW2 Battle of the Bulge handdrawn minefield report, evidently in the vinicinty of the village of Eisenborn, Belgium, made on 2/1/1945.

Ed,

I was wondering where it went when I tried to post this reply...

I think that it's a significant piece of history. Not only did not many survive. It is drafted and written by hand. In my opinion, a bit of the person who did it.

The Officer who did it had a good bit of training in Drafting and/or Architectural drawing. I've had 5 years of it. I was an assistant drafting instructor, and graded drawings in a first year class in my Senior year in HS. He knew what he was doing.

His legend is very well done, and I like the text and his description.

I think that's a very neat and scarce find. I would put it in a really nice frame. Make sure that the backing and any matting is acid free and paper safe. Very cool...

Ron

I hope you don't expect us to remember what we posted way back in...hours ago!;)

Hey, as a military-historian, you should recall that 2/45 is after the Bulge,

Yes, you are right; Battle fought 16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945, but I would expect that to the soldiers; it was very unknown at the time what to expect.

I was going off of the note on the antique shop and no, I did not realize that the date was after ;)

i'd be irritated if the war had ended and I had not known it when I bought it, i.e. after May 1945...

Mine is a "immoral" weapon. :)

Personnel mines are a bad thing; anti tank mines I do not mind.


Here from wikipedia on February

True, things were still very "hot" in Feb.

Sorry about being picky, I just got gifted "Band of Brothers" and I may be ODing on it!

I have taken a class on Battle of the Bulge while in the netherlands, and walked the trails they fought on. We drove the route of one of the tank regiments reacting to the attack from Hoensbroek to Bastonge.

My great-uncle was there during the bulge and had a story of a jeep trying to pass him late one night, he didn't let it and next day found out there were germans riding in american jeeps and shooting the drivers as they passed them. He never knew if the jeep trying to pass was germans or not, but had a deauce and a half and they were a lot smaller than him :D


Ed

Elsenborn ridge is where the US 106th Infantry held out quite a long time before they had to give up.

My dad was with the 506th.
It used to aggravate my mom that a bunch of local vets would get together and tell war stories and my dad would not say a thing.
She never did get it.