Chaumont HQ Battle Map
- Description
- Gen. John J. Pershing commanded the American Expeditionary Force in World War I. When he arrived in France, he established his headquarters at Chaumont, where his war room included this large situation map. During the course of operations, the map was regularly replaced by another map peeled from a block of identical maps. Identical updated maps were distributed to all subordinate commands, allowing a degree of coordination never before achieved. This map sheet shows troop dispositions on the Western Front the day the war ended, November 11, 1918.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- map
- associated date
- 1918
- user
- Pershing, John J.
- American Expeditionary Force
- associated place
- Europe
- ID Number
- AF*35016
- catalog number
- 35016
- accession number
- 182935
- subject
- Military
- Measuring & Mapping
- event
- World War I
- See more items in
- Armed Forces History: Armed Forces History, Military
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
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