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Source Description
A set of military maps produced for soldiers of the U.S. Armed Forces.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
fn107c53c
label
Newsmap
core
obj
dtoType
map
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
fn107c53c
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
Newsmap
description
A set of military maps produced for soldiers of the U.S. Armed Forces.
date
["1943"]
year
1943
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
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
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
Myanmar
thumbnailUrl
largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
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.
Source extras
institutionArkId
sf268508b
collectionArkId
41688024w
schema:latitude
22
schema:longitude
98
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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no
dcId
fn107c53c
type
map
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
02dad73afd7c768f