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Aerial photos shot from U.S. warplanes during World War II, newly released by Historic England, feature a damaged Manchester soccer stadium and a racecourse storing military equipment.

The recovered maps provided valuable intelligence for the United States after World War II. 1 of 12 This detail from a Japanese map depicts an area near Pyongyang, North Korea.

More Americans came into contact with maps during World War II than in any previous moment in ... and by the end of the day a map of Europe could not be bought anywhere in the United States.