St. Mihiel sector 1917 Lieut. Harry G. Sheldon captured German Officer maps.
This exclusive collection of World War I maps was taken from a German major on the battlefield of ‘Rupt en Weurve’ in the St.Mihiel Sector on September 13th, 1917 by Lt. Harry G. Sheldon of the A.E.F. forces.
Lt. Harry G. Sheldon was apart of the 26th Infantry Division, Company A. of the 101st Military Police and obtained these map during an examination of German prisoner of war. The set of 45 recovered German war maps are of the various American sectors occupied by American troops in France.
These maps are broken into sets of 4 being label A,B,C and D of each given sector and district. Putting these section together forms a large map. They are all common scale and can be placed side by side to fit.
All the 45 maps in this collection are in near mint condition making each of these maps extremely rare given their age.
