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654TH ENGINEER TOPOGRAPHIC BATTALION
 • World War II •

60 pages scanned. Instant PDF download.

Document Overview:
Written and signed by the battalion’s commander, Lt. Col. C. V. Ruzek, Jr., and addressed to the Engineer, First U.S. Army, this is the official Report of Technical Operations of the 654th Engineer Topographic Battalion for 1 August to 31 December 1944, the second in a series covering the unit’s work in the European Theater. It documents how the First Army’s map-making battalion supported the drive across France and Belgium and into western Germany through photomapping, map reproduction, map depot distribution and field survey, including emergency map production during the Ardennes breakthrough, Rhine River photomaps and channel surveys, and the issue of 8,976,995 maps to First Army units. Route maps of battalion headquarters and the First Army Map Depot, month-by-month job lists, production tables and 21 appendices of map indices round out the report. This is a digital download of a scanned copy of the original booklet.

Campaigns: Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes (Battle of the Bulge)

Commanders: Lt. Col. C. V. Ruzek, Jr.

Unit newspaper: unknown

Table of Contents
Route of Battalion Headquarters
Route of First Army Map Depot
Report of Technical Operations, 1 August 1944 to 31 December 1944
Photomapping Operations
Reproduction Operations
Map Depot Operations
Surveying Operations
Photomapping Operations Report
Reproduction Operations Report
Road Maps of France
Tours Photomap Project
Paris Photomap Project
Maps Reproduced from Kodalines GSGS 4347, 4041 and 4427
Emergency Map Production in Western Germany
Map Revision Project
Road and Bridge Data Maps
Emergency Production for Ardennes Breakthrough
Maps Reproduced from Kodalines GSGS 4250 and 4040
Northwestern Germany and Rhine River Photomaps
Rhine River Series
Rhine River Channel Locations
GSGS 2738, 4042 and 4346
Emergency Road Maps of Germany
Reproduction of GSGS 4416
Miscellaneous Job Production
Map Depot Monthly Issues
Map Depot Issues – Principal Series
Survey Company Operations

“Even though this unit is capable of producing maps in large quantities rapidly, they are of no value unless they can be efficiently placed in the hands of the using troops.”
— Lt. Col. C. V. Ruzek, Jr., Report of Technical Operations, 1944