BAMS Zones of communication
The file shows the world map overlayed with Zone of operation for the Broadcast to Allied Merchant Ships (BAMS) system, across the World. The system was used to communicate official messages to convoys and ensure that it could be done, anywhere in the world.
- Date
- 1944
- Mapmaker / publisher
- United States Navy 1944
- Place
- the world with Mercator projection
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 1,903 × 1,083 pixels
Public domainsafest
Reason: a US government work (US Navy).
Read from: Commons licence category: PD US Navy; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
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