This incredibly rare and museum-grade WWII Ninth U. Army "RESTRICTED - GERMAN DEFENSES" map was used during the infamous Operation Queen with the objective. Queen' was a US offensive by Lieutenant General Omar N. Army Group on the Rur (Roer in French and Dutch) River and Siegfried Line in western Germany as a staging point for a subsequent thrust over the river to the Rhine river and thus deeper into Germany (16 November/15 December 1944). The offensive commenced on 16 November 1944 with one of the heaviest Allied tactical bombings of the war. However, the Allied advance was ...
