Allied Military Model Making during World War II
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KEYWORDS: Military mapping, terrain modeling, World War II. Introduction ..... In this famous episode of World War II the British ...
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Allied Military Model Making during World War II Alastair W. Pearson ABSTRACT: It is generally accepted that the three-dimensional nature of the digital terrain model enhances our visualization of surfaces. Modern techniques enable a detailed landscape to be constructed as a facsimile of reality that provides an opportunity to move through or fly over the landscape. Given these benefits, it is little surprise that simulations using digital terrain models are employed as essential visual aids for briefing and training military personnel prior to land, air, and sea operations. Though these capabilities are significant, they are not necessarily, in the basic sense, new. This paper traces the development and examines the role of terrain models made by the Allies during World War II, a period prior to the development of computer-based modeling. Though made from basic materials, these sophisticated terrain models were hand crafted by enlisted sculptors, architects, stage designers, and artists, who carefully modeled a sculpture of the landscape to be an invaluable aid during key military operations of World War II. KEYWORDS: Military mapping, terrain modeling, World War II Introduction U se of terrain models to support military operations has a long history and is by no means purely an artifact of the twen- tieth century. According to Isabell Warmoes (1999), the production of scale models of fortified towns is a European tradition dating from the early six- teenth century. The Musée des plans-reliefs in Paris holds a collection of one hundred models of forti- fied towns situated along former French frontiers or subject to French rule that represent “portraits in relief ” of towns and their surrounding coun- tryside within range of artillery fire and enemy approach works, such as trenches, in case of siege. The levels of craftsmanship and attention to detail have seldom been exceeded. During the twentieth century the three-dimen- sional terrain mod ...
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