Seen any authentic North Atlantic/U-boat charts/maps?

InfectiousDust · Joined: 21 May 2005 Posts: 3

Hi all.

I have an interesting request which I was hoping someone might be able to help me with. Basically I have a bare wall in my room that I think would be filled nicely with a framed WWII-era chart/map of the North Atlantic. Ideally, I'd like to find an authentic chart/map that was used by U-boat captains during the war. I plan to have it blown up at Kinko's to a decent size, so a high quality image with a high resolution is important.

So far the best one that I have found is at http://u-boat.realsimulation.com. The image is a 9.88MB JPEG, with a resolution of 3378 x 2652.

Has anyone else come across a good image similar to what I am looking for? I would really appreciate any and all help with this. Thanks! Smile

Sailor Steve · Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 2:20 am Post subject:

http://143.50.93.50/werner/blah/Nordatlantikkarte/index.html

Guest · Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 12:36 pm Post subject:

InfectiousDust · Joined: 21 May 2005 Posts: 3

Sorry that was me. I didn't know guests had posting privileges here. Embarassed

Hellcat · Joined: 08 May 2004 Posts: 227 Location: Ontario, Canada

What about the paper map that came with AOTD? It seemed athentic to me (I could be wrong, its been like 6 years since I saw that map last)

Was a nice thing to have hanging right beside the monitor... I would be very interested in getting a hold of something of that scale that can be printed 24 X 36 and then framed or laminated for that matter.

*** d'oh that link you posted looks just like the aotd map... however even on the largest verison you can't read the city names when zoomed in ***

irishred · Joined: 10 Mar 2004 Posts: 307 Location: The Woodlands, TX

I've got some maps that probably aren't available anywhere else, if someone is willing to host them - 177 MB PM me.