U.S. Department of Defense
Date of this Version
2-1945
Document Type
Article
Citation
The minimum unambiguous citation for this document is AMS Memo 425, Feb 1945.
Abstract
Covers the policies and practices of the Army Map Service and shows standard grids and grid data on military maps including British, American polyconic, and American domestic grids; the content and composition of declination diagrams and notes; grid protractors; the treatment of various grid intervals, overlapping grids, grid notes and reference boxes.
Two loose charts were found in an envelope with this document.
Appendix I: US Grid N.E.I. Equatorial Zone
Apendix II: Index of American and British Grid Systems
Appendix I: US Grid N.E.I. Equatorial Zone
World Map.pdf (44812 kB)
Apendix II: Index of American and British Grid Systems
_AMS Memo 425_45.pdf (44627 kB)
Army Map Service Memorandum 425 (higher resolution)
Comments
(1) This is a digital copy of a document in the collection of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
(2) Because the army reuses document numbers and titles, the date is needed to uniquely identify any given document.