[Persian Gulf Command / Persian Corridor map] Iran Sheet No. I-39P Kashan, Provisional GSGS No. 3919 (Survey of India), I & A.C. No 9 O, AMS 2, AMS K501 - For Use by War and Navy Agencies Only

Three colour (black, red and brown) printed paper map 46x66cm. Good, neatly folded, lightly tanned, with some wear. Geographical Section General Staff (GSGS) No. 3919 prepared by the Survey of India, Edition November 1942, reproduced by the 4th Indian Field Survey Company in January 1943, then by the US Army Map Service (AMS) 5-43. This British Indian Army map was repurposed by the US Army, presumably to assist the Persian Gulf Command in operating the Persian Corridor with the British Paiforce to channel lend lease supplies to the USSR. Kashan, on the Central Iranian Plateau in the northern part of Isfahan Province, was one of the main cities on this route. This sheet is bounded by Kashan (N), Natanz (E), Morcha Khurt (S), and Meimeh (W) on a scale of 1 inch to 4 miles. Details include administrative boundaries, several classes of road (distinguishing metalled and unmetalled, cart tracks, all weather roads, dry weather roads etc including disused; railways; landing grounds; caravanserais; water wells and availability and quality of water, springs, mosques, forts, watch towers, deserted villages, police posts, telephone lines and offices, a tea shop, tombs, wadis etc, with descriptive notes about terrain in the image. A stretch of incomplete railway is shown running between Kashan and Khalidabad. …