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The map used for presenting the war against Germany through November 1944 is based on an azimuthal equidistant projection, in which curving latitudes and converging longitudes appear somewhat as they do on a sphere. The red grid lines are drawn at 500-mile intervals zeroed on Berlin. The last six months of the war in Europe are shown on an enlarged section of this map; the enlargement results in a change of scale from about 250 to about 125 miles to the inch.