Question German War room map marker
He said as the Army pushed into Germany they were halted at a heavily defended building that was reported being a command center of some kind near a river. The fight there lasted several hours, and the tank he was on was ordered forward to shell the building. Finally at some point the Germans pulled back and some surrendered, and the building was taken.
As infantry pushed forward the tank crew was allowed to take a break, and had dismounted near part of the building which had collapsed for several floors. An intelligence officer asked several enlisted to help gather items seen in the building wreckage. Inside he saw approx 25-30 of these, but many were already broken badly, and some had different insignias on them, but he recognized this easily. Initially he thought this was a paperweight, and slipped it into his coat pocket as a war prize. As they continued picking up pieces he asked what they were the officer told him this was a territory marker from a planning map, and showed him several pieces of a destroyed smooth top map like we see in the old war movies.
The oficer gathered up several which were still mostly intact, placed them in a bag, and handed them to his assistant to place with papers, and other items being sent to the rear command, but then destroyed all the others like this on site that he was not taking or were already badly damaged so they could not be used my the enemy in any manner."
Has anyone seen anything like this? It is very heavy. Too bad it has been damaged a little, but I guess it makes it that much neater since it is part of if history.
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