[Cold War map of Europe, USSR and the Middle East] USAF Global Navigation and Planning Chart GNC-4N Scale 1:5,000,000, 6th Edition

Colour printed paper map 146x106cm. Very good, neatly folded with some wear at folds. Base compiled May 1967 from sources dated 1932-65 with air information current through 26 May 1967, printed by WPL 6-67. An impressive Cold War map centred on Eastern Europe and the USSR, bounded by the Iceland Military Air Defence Identification Zone or ADIZ (NW), Krasnoyarsk (NE), the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman (SE), and the Algeria-Mali border in the Sahara (SW). Details include area tints, spot elevations, approximate limits of pack ice (in the Baltic, Gulf of Bothnia, White Sea and around Iceland), international and other boundaries, transportation (rail including under construction, major roads), oil pipelines, etc. A note to the margin states the US "has not recognized the incorporation of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and German territory into the Soviet Union, nor does it recognize as final the de-facto western limit of Polish administration in Germany". Boundaries include the German ADIZ with Central European Buffer Zone running alongside, the Italian ADIZ, the Soviet Zone of Occupation at the Germany-Denmark maritime border, and the Greek-Turkish Buffer Zone. A dense network of air corridors is shown over Europe along with numerous related warning boxes in the image about overflying certain territories, and a vast number of other code referenced Prohibited, Danger or Caution Areas. Prepared at the time of the Six Day War with growing Cold War tensions in the Middle East, these zones extend with related warnings into the Eastern Mediterranean, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq.…