Introduction
In Part 1 of this series we saw the setting for the development of a proto European-wide datum by the Germans. This super-National Datum was originally driven from the need of political and military powers in central Europe to comprehensively understand the world around them. Part 2 of the story will concentrate on the Second World War and the Allied military operations that ultimately led to the creation of the European Datum of 1950.
“During the war the German Army also connected triangulations of other European nations to [the German national datum]" Hough 1948
Before 1939 the responsibility with Military Survey at the British War Office was vested in the Geographical Section of the General Staff known as
