81 color maps, on sheets 104 x 155 cm or smaller (some trimmed by hand), folded to 36 x 25 cm or smaller. Wartime editions of maps published between 1936-1953, some printed by Michelin as provisional stock editions or printing proofs in only two colors, and others revised by Allied forces, including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army Map Service, and the British War Office's General Staff-Geographical Section. Some of these were used by Allied soldiers in Europe, accounting for variation in folded dimensions. Includes maps of Benelux (sheets 3 and 4), France (sheets 51,52, 54, 55, 57, 58, 59, 60, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 69, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 80, 82, 84, 98, 98 A, 98 B, and 99 B), and northwestern Africa (sheet 151). The Allied military maps were printed without standard covers or title panels on generally poor quality paper, apparently due to limited availability of paper stock.

Includes Strassenkarte von Nordostfrankreich, an invasion-planning portfolio of maps of France published by Germany's Generalstab des Heeres, Abteilung fur Kreigskarten und Vermessungswesen in 1940, and based on 1938 editions of 9 Michelin maps of France (sheets 52, 53, 55, 56, 57, 61, 62, 65, and 66).

Includes multiple variant copies of Michelin maps of Germany published 1944 and 1945 (sheets 162 and 163), many printed on the versos of so-called "Anschluss" or invasion planning maps published by Germany's Generalstab des Heeres, Abteilung fur Kreigskarten und Vermessungswesen. Based on British Ordnance Survey maps, the German maps mostly cover regions of England at scale 1:50,000, are dated 1940 or 1941, include the printed word "Anschluss", and were originally printed on sheets with blank versos. These were salvaged during the war as paper stock to print new Michelin maps of Germany for the use of Allied forces, some printed with a mocking note about Allied invasion maps of Germany: "Ils avaient prévu l'invasion de l'Angleterre, et imprimé la carte qui est au dos. Mais...ils n'avaient pas prévu que l'on utiliserait l'autre coté pour imprimer la carte d'invasion de leur pays".

Post-war maps include an American Red Cross map of Paris (1945?); historical thematic maps issued to commemorate battles and campaigns in Normandy, Provence, and Alsace (sheets 102, 103, 104, and 105, published in multiple editions between 1947-1994); Official road map [of France] for Allied Forces Europe (sheet 989, published 1953); and Le Havre, Dieppe, Amiens: Commonwealth War Cemeteries and Memorials (based on sheet 52, published 1999).

Sheet numbers of all variant or derivative wartime editions: 3,4, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 69, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 80, 82, 84, 87, 98, 98 A, 98 B, 99 B, 100, 102, 103, 104, 105, 151, 162, 163, and 989. Includes maps of undetermined scale, scale 1:200,000, and scale 1:1,000,000. See also Series 3, Africa, subseries 1, regional maps of Africa, for 1949-1954 editions of sheet 152 detailing French military raids in Libya in 1943. Other thematic maps, none directly related to the war, are filed with Series 1, France, subseries 9, client and thematic maps.