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    "title": "Newsmap",
    "description": "A set of military maps produced for soldiers of the U.S. Armed Forces.",
    "date": "[\"1943\"]",
    "year": 1943,
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    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
    "rightsUri": "No known restrictions on use.",
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    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_017126",
    "creators": [
        "United States. Army Service Forces. Special Service Division",
        "Manning, F. E.",
        "United States. Army Air Forces. Publications Division",
        "United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel. Educational Services Section"
    ],
    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
    "collections": [
        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection"
    ],
    "subjects": [
        "World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Maps",
        "World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Burma--Maps",
        "World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Dnieper River--Maps",
        "World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Europe, Southern--Maps",
        "World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Islands of the Pacific--Maps",
        "War posters, American",
        "Burma--Maps",
        "Dnieper River--Maps",
        "Europe, Southern--Maps",
        "Islands of the Pacific--Maps",
        "Aerial views",
        "Military maps",
        "World maps"
    ],
    "subjectsGeographic": [
        "Asia",
        "Dnieper",
        "Europe",
        "Myanmar",
        "Pacific Islands",
        "Southern Europe"
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        "Maps"
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    "country": "Myanmar",
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    "pubPlace": "Washington, D.C.",
    "publisher": "War Dept., Army Service Forces ; Army Air Forces distribution by Publications Division, Air Adjutant General, HQ., AAF ; Navy distribution by Educational Services Section, BuPers, Navy Dept."
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    "extent": "4 maps and 1 view on 1 sheet : both sides, color ; sheet 90 x 120 cm",
    "notes": [
        "A set of military maps produced for soldiers of the U.S. Armed Forces.",
        "On verso, Target Berlin is a graphic representation of a photographic view of the earth focused in the center of the sphere on Berlin, Germany, and so scale and distance varies on this map. A detachable scale is supplied at the bottom of the verso, and by which distances can be measured along any line running through Berlin and also as long as it is positioned on Berlin the varying scale can be estimated.",
        "Relief shown by shading on Dnieper River map and Southern Europe map ; shown pictorially on view; shown by hachures and spot heights on Burma map.",
        "Volume II, no. 27.",
        "\"Prepared from public sources of information.\"",
        "War fronts: Russia, Italy, Schweinfurt, Southwest Pacific, Burma, North Pacific, U.S. subs.",
        "Photographs: Nazis use Soviet equipment and men in battle for Italy; Soviet soldier and RAF officer; Lieut. Col. Chesley G. Peterson, Salt Lake City; Fuel pipe lines; Fifth Army engineers replace a Nazi-bombed bridge; In the Naga Hills of northern Burma.",
        "\"F.E. Manning 43\"--View.",
        "Includes text, 12 photographs, inset of New Britain Island (Papua New Guinea), and 3 world globe diagrams explaining the projection and scale of the view.",
        "\"U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943 – 538110.\""
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