A topographic draftsman was an occupational specialty during World War II in the Army. It was a person who went out ahead of the troops and would draw pictures of the terrain so that the troops and tanks and artillery would know what the terrain was like before advancing. Basically, they were scouts who checked things out ahead of the troop movements and drew pictures to give the command people an idea of what was out there. Now we have satellites to check out the terrain, etc., but such things weren't available in World War II.
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Cartographic Draftsman (20th Engineer Btn.,Vietnam 1970)
Table C-2. Features on topographic maps
Eros is the Greek god of love. So Landeros should mean the land of Eros or the land of love.ANSWER:The name Landeros is Spanish. It is a topographic name for someone who lived by an oak wood, from a Castilianized form of the Galician landeiros, from landeiro 'oak producing many acorns'.
The key draftsman was Wilhelm Stuckart, who was later convicted of war crimes. (See link). Later Hans Globke, who enjoyed a high position of trust under Adenauer (!) expanded the definition of 'sex' between Aryans and Jews in great detail to include things like mutual masturbation.
Yes, Mudd is a real name. It's from a medieval personal name, a variant of Maud. Its origin is from the Old English personal name Mod(a), a short form of compound names containing the element mod (spirit; mind; courage), or a topographic name for someone who lived in a particularly muddy area, from Middle English mud(de) (mud); or perhaps also a metonymic occupational name for a dauber (one who constructed buildings of wattle and daub).