Re: Korean War maps

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In a message dated 9/3/2002 7:13:54 AM Pacific Daylight Time, evanhoe@arbuckleonline.com writes:


> Out of curiosity I dug out my 1950 copy of Rand-McNally's Road Map of 
> Korea, scale 1:1,000,000 (as is the L451 series road map Sandy mentioned) 
> to see if they called the reservoir "Changjin" or "Chosin."  On this road 
> map the Changjin River was shown and the outline of the reservoir but 
> didn't have the reservoir named.  The 1952 AMS Series L-751, 1:250,000 
> scale, shows the reservoir as the "Changjin Reservoir."


Ed,

There you are!

Some maps had the place correctly during the War.

So, the excuse that it was only shown as "Chosin" at the time
does not hold up.

jk