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 LANDING CRAFT SILHOUETTES
These landing craft silhouettes are to be used to study the beaching of craft in conjunction with U. S. Chart-Maps
Nos. 1039 - 1039a - 1040 - 1041, Belle-He-en-Mer, France, West Coast, and accompanying Beach Profiles.

HOW TO USE SILHOUETTES: (1.) Determine the height of the tide for a given instant from the tide curve ac­
companying the Chart-Maps. (2.) Draw this height of water horizontally to the beach profile. (3.) Apply the Silhouette of
a given landing craft so that the waterline of the craft coincides with the tide - line as found in 2 above. (4.) Slide the land­
ing craft along horizontally until it "beaches" on the profile. (5.) The depth and extent of water remaining to be crossed by
troops and vehicles may be directly scaled, and the location of the beaching recorded in the Section - Map and Chart- Map.

NOTE: This sheet of silhouettes to be used only with U.S. Chart-Maps. Nos. 1039-1039a -1040 -1041 Belle-lle-en-
Mer, France, West Coast.

The vertical and horizontal scales of these silhouettes are the same as the Beach Profiles. Horizontal scale 1 inch
equals 100 feet, vertical scale 1 inch equals 10 feet, an exaggeration of 10 times. The silhouettes above the waterline are
drawn approximately as they would normally appear without any distortion of scale relationship.

Produced Jointly by:

Commander Task Force One Two Two

and

Intelligence Division, Office of the Chief Engineer

E.T.O.U.S. Army

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LCM (3) LCT (5) LCT (6)

RHINO FERRY

LCVP LCP (L) LCA

 SECTIONAL CHART-MAP CC 1 inch equals 100 feet ' • . • : • • . ' • • • .

BEACH PROFILE SHEET

to accompany </•'. • • '• ' : ' • ' .

U. S: CHART-MAP No. 1040 \ : : . . * . . • •

BEACH VIRGINIA
BELLE-ILE-EN-MER
FRANCE, WEST COAST

VERTICAL BEACH PROFILE

Scale of Sectional Chart - Map 1 inch equals 100 feet

Horizontal scale of Profile 1 inch equals 100 feet
Vertical scale of Profile 1 inch equals 10 feet
Tide Curve for the day
to be inserted here r­ 20 r­ 20

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1. The Sectional Chart - Maps with Vertical Beach
Profiles CC and DD are enlarged from the areas shown in
Chart-Map 1040 Directly under the Sectional Chart-Map,
CHART CHART
and at the same horizontal scale, the Beach Profile is drawn, - 0­ - 0
DATUM DATUM
to the left of which a space is provided to insert the tide Rocky bottom
curve. Instructions for the use of these diagrams in Ortho-
tidal projection are to be found on the reverse side of this — 5
sheet. 1300 1200 1100 1000 300 200 100 100 200 300

2. The Beach Profiles shown here are distorted, the ver­

tical scale being 10 times the horizontal scale which has
been kept the same as that of the accompanying map.
Owing to the distortion, the slopes appear much steeper
than they actually are, but more accurate vertical measure­ •\. .V \:
ments for the application of tidal data are thus made SECTIONAL CHART-MAP DD 1 inch equals 100 feet
possible. • \ •. \ : • x;
3. The profiles have been developed from the following
sources.
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Chart depths from French Hydrographic Chart, 1938.
Beach elevations from Aerial Photographs taken at : • \ . i : • ( •

varying stages of tide. 10

Land elevations from available map sources, and obli­
que Aerial Photographs, (see below)
4. The map shown on this sheet has been developed
entirely from Aerial Photographs, and spot heights taken
from French Charts.
Water depths and Beach elevations (in feet) are re­ ; • : ; • ; ; • : • / :

ferred to the Chart Datum Plane, which corresponds ap­

proximately to the lowest occuring low water.
Heights on land are referred to Map zero, approx­
imately Mean Sea Level, shown in the vertical profile scale.
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5. The landing craft silhouette transparent accompanying
the profile sheet is used in the following way:
The hour contemplated for the beaching of the craft
is marked on the tide curve (for the day) and the height VERTICAL BEACH PROFILE DD
of the water drawn to the profile. To this water-level, the
waterline of the landing craft is adjusted, and the silhouette
slid until touching the profile. In this manner the beaching
of craft for an entire operation can be studied.

Tide Curve for the day

r­ 20 r- 20
to be inserted here

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10 MAP - 10 MAP
Produced Jointly By:
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Commander Task Force One Two Two, U. S. Navy
and Intelligence Division, O.C.E., E.T.O.U.S. Army - 5 -5

CHART CHART
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DATUM Rocky bottom DATUM

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