Newsmap. Monday, August 9, 1943 [cartographic material] : week of July 29 to August 5, 204th week of the war, 86th week of U.S. participation / prepared and distributed by Army Orientation Course, Special Service Division, Army Service Forces, War Dept

Corporate Author: United States. Army Service Forces. Special Service Division
Additional Titles: Monday, August 9, 1943 : week of July 29 to August 5, 204th week of the war, 86th week of U.S. participation
Published: Washington, D.C. : Army Service Forces, War Dept., [1943]
Washington, D.C. : Army Air Forces distribution by Publications Division, Air Adjutant General, HQ., AAF.
Washington, D.C. : Navy distribution by Educational Services Section, BuPers, Navy Dept.
Physical Description: 1 map : color ; 42 x 86 cm, on sheet 90 x 120 cm
Additional Creators: Block, Herbert, 1909-2001, United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel. Educational Services Section, and United States. Army Air Forces. Publications Division

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Report Numbers

W 109.107:2/16

Subject(s)

World War, 1939-1945—Campaigns—Maps
World War, 1939-1945—Europe—Maps
World War, 1939-1945—Mediterranean Region—Maps
World War, 1939-1945—United States—Pictorial works
Europe—Maps
Mediterranean Region—Maps

Genre(s)

Military maps

Cartographic Mathematical Data

Scale: [ca.1:4,400,000] (W 10°00ʹ--E 39°00ʹ/N 48°00ʹ--N 30°00ʹ).

Note

Map: "Strategic air distances across the Mediterranean" shows radial distances with concentric circles at 200 mile intervals from Bizerte, Tunisia and Cirenaica region of Libya.
Relief shown by landform drawings.
"Volume II no. 16."
War fronts: Italy, Sicily, Rumania, Russia, Germany, Burma-China, Southwest Pacific.
Includes 9 photographs: Army engineers building a drydock in the Aluetians -- A Tommy reads "Soldier's guide to Sicily" -- Royal Artillery Detachment stationed north of Syracuse, Sicily examines damage done by Italians to a mobile anti-aircraft train -- Nazis surrender to U.S. infantrymen near Carlentini -- Junkers-290 transport shot down by an RAF Marauder near the coast of Bastia, Corsica -- U.S. Marines push a generator into position near Munda -- Japanese interpreters of the U.S. Army decipher papers found on a wounded Japanese officer -- A winch pulls a mud-splattered jeep free on Rendova -- 155mm rifle sends rounds into Munda from Rendova Island.
On verso: The long, tough fight ahead : beyond sunny Italy! [Illustration by Herbert Block and a quote from the President of the United States, July 28, 1943: "I confess that I myself am sometimes bewildered by conflicting statements that I see in the press ..."].
"Prepared from public sources of information."
"U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943 - 538110."

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