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    "title": "Newsmap",
    "description": "Relief shown by hachures on New Britain map and shown pictorially on globe view.",
    "date": "[\"1943\"]",
    "year": 1943,
    "citationUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:fn107c51t",
    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
    "rightsUri": "No known restrictions on use.",
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    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_017125",
    "creators": [
        "United States. Army Service Forces. Morale Service Division",
        "Harrison, Richard Edes",
        "United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel. Educational Services Section",
        "United States. Army Air Forces. Publications Division"
    ],
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    "collections": [
        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection"
    ],
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        "World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Maps",
        "World War, 1939-1945--Occupied territories--Maps",
        "World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Eastern Front--Maps",
        "World War, 1939-1945--Malay Archipelago--Occupied territories--Maps",
        "World War, 1939-1945--Pacific Ocean--Occupied territories--Aerial views",
        "World War, 1939-1945--Papua New Guinea--West New Britain Province--Maps",
        "World War, 1939-1945--Southeast Asia--Occupied territories--Aerial views",
        "Europe, Eastern--Maps",
        "Malay Archipelago--Maps",
        "Pacific Ocean--Aerial views",
        "Southeast Asia--Aerial views",
        "West New Britain Province (Papua New Guinea)--Maps",
        "Aerial views",
        "Military maps",
        "Japan--Territories and possessions--Maps"
    ],
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        "Eastern Europe",
        "Empire of Japan",
        "Europe",
        "Malay Archipelago",
        "Oceania",
        "Papua New Guinea",
        "West New Britain"
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    "source": "import",
    "pubPlace": "Washington, D.C.",
    "publisher": "Army Service Forces, War Dept. ; Army Air Forces distribution by Publications Division, Air Adjutant General, H.Q., A.A.F. ; Navy distribution by Educational Services Section, BuPers, Navy Dept."
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    "extent": "3 maps and 1 view on 1 sheet : both sides, color ; 86 x 114 or smaller, sheet 90 x 120 cm",
    "notes": [
        "Relief shown by hachures on New Britain map and shown pictorially on globe view.",
        "\"Volume II No. 36.\"",
        "\"Prepared from public sources of information.\"",
        "\"U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943 - 538110.\"",
        "War fronts: USSR, Southwest Pacific, Italy, Air offensive, Yugoslavia.",
        "Photographs: French troops of 2nd Moroccan Division fight in Italy -- Half-track loaded with Frenchmen crosses the Volturno -- French First Armored Division during maneuvers -- B-25 Mitchell bomber -- 75mm shell for the cannon on the Mitchell bomber -- Japanese destroyer after being hit by shells from the Mitchell bomber -- Gen. Bernard Montgomery commander of the British Eighth Army explains battle strategy to Soviet generals: Maj. Gen. Vasiliev and Maj. Gen. Solodvnik.",
        "Includes \"Land of the setting sun\" text and 11 map drawings showing the progression of Japan's land acquisitions from 1875 to Nov.1 1942.",
        "Globe view and drawings by Richard Edes Harrison [reprinted from Fortune]."
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