Latest content added for UNT Digital Library Collection: World War II Collectionhttps://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/collections/WWII/browse/?sort=date_a&fq=str_location_country:China&fq=untl_institution:UNTGD&fq=str_month:12_dec2006-10-19T22:45:56-05:00UNT LibrariesThis is a custom feed for browsing UNT Digital Library Collection: World War II CollectionNewsmap. Monday, December 21, 1942 : week of December 11 to December 182006-10-19T15:28:46-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc996/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc996/"><img alt="Newsmap. Monday, December 21, 1942 : week of December 11 to December 18" title="Newsmap. Monday, December 21, 1942 : week of December 11 to December 18" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc996/small/"/></a></p><p>Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Libya; Tunisia; New Guinea; Solomons; China; Russia; Aleutians
Large world map is keyed to text and illustrates time zones around the world. Includes inset maps: New Guinea; Mediterranean Sea; Russian front.
Photographs: Supply dock; wrecked by recoil; Captured Italian flag; Hot on Rommel's heels; Yanks advance on Japs in New Guinea
Back: Text describes the history and power of infantry. Includes 19 photographs and a map of Stalingrad and the Caucasus operations area.</p>Newsmap. Monday, December 6, 1943 : week of November 25 to December 2, 221st week of the war, 103rd week of U.S. participation2006-10-19T17:54:25-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc946/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc946/"><img alt="Newsmap. Monday, December 6, 1943 : week of November 25 to December 2, 221st week of the war, 103rd week of U.S. participation" title="Newsmap. Monday, December 6, 1943 : week of November 25 to December 2, 221st week of the war, 103rd week of U.S. participation" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc946/small/"/></a></p><p>Text describes action on various war fronts: Italy, USSR, Germany, Central Pacific, Southwest Pacific, China, Plans.
Inset maps: central Italy, northeast New Guinea, Action areas in central and southwest Pacific, Truk Is., Nauru, Wotje, Jaluit, Makin, Tarawa.
Photographs: Australian Air Force Beaufighter, Sgt. Ben Kuroki of Hershey, Nebraska, Captured Soviet equipment, Rescued blindfolded Nazi. German built road in Isernia.
Back: Text and 11 illustrations highlight the 11 general orders that must be known by sentinels.</p>Newsmap. Monday, December 20, 1943 : week of December 9 to December 16, 223rd week of the war, 105th week of U.S. participation2006-10-19T17:59:24-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc944/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc944/"><img alt="Newsmap. Monday, December 20, 1943 : week of December 9 to December 16, 223rd week of the war, 105th week of U.S. participation" title="Newsmap. Monday, December 20, 1943 : week of December 9 to December 16, 223rd week of the war, 105th week of U.S. participation" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc944/small/"/></a></p><p>Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Southwest Pacific, Central Pacific, China, USSR, Italy, Air offensive, Submarines.
Inset maps: Southeast Europe, Central China battle area.
Photographs: U.S. Army engineers replace a bridge in Italy, Antiaircraft fire from a U.S. carrier, Brazilian ground and air troops, Turkish officials, "Rome or Death."
Back: Text and photographs illustrate the battle for the Gilbert Islands.</p>Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 274th week of the war, 156th week of U.S. participation2006-10-19T20:19:53-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc893/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc893/"><img alt="Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 274th week of the war, 156th week of U.S. participation" title="Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 274th week of the war, 156th week of U.S. participation" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc893/small/"/></a></p><p>Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Allied pressure increases, Cologne approaches attacked, Saar Valley threatened; Red Army strikes; Ravenna falls; Pacific Theatre active; Kweiyang evacuated; Japs retreat in Burma.
Maps: Soviet drive; Cologne Plain; Winter offensive; Japanese threat; Leyte. Inset map: Philippines.
Back: Photographs and llustrations highlight various infantry weapons: guns, rifles, pistols, machine guns, mortars and other weapons.</p>Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 275th week of the war, 157th week of U.S. participation2006-10-19T20:22:33-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc892/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc892/"><img alt="Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 275th week of the war, 157th week of U.S. participation" title="Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 275th week of the war, 157th week of U.S. participation" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc892/small/"/></a></p><p>Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Western front battle, Pressure on Budapest, German attack in Italy, Ormoc Falls: B-20s active, Far Eastern front.
Maps: European front, The Saar, Hungarian front, Pacific action,
Leyte area.
Back: Text highlights "Preventive Maintenance" and describes the need to take care of ordnance equipment and "keep 'em rolling." Illustrations of 18 types of mobile ordnance are labeled.</p>Newsmap for the Armed Forces : 4 years after Pearl Harbor2006-10-19T22:44:55-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc841/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc841/"><img alt="Newsmap for the Armed Forces : 4 years after Pearl Harbor" title="Newsmap for the Armed Forces : 4 years after Pearl Harbor" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc841/small/"/></a></p><p>Front:
Text describes photographs: U.S. destroyer Shaw -- Third Fleet Unit -- Nazis march in Vienna -- 35th Infantry Division troops in Polch, Poland -- Joachim von Ribbentrop -- Signatures on the United Nations Security Charter -- Nipponese who helped capture the headquarters of Chinese 29th Army at Tungchow -- Pfc. Cecil Cunningham, of St. Louis, MO in Tokyo -- Navy Secretary Frank Knox draws the second number in the Third Selective Service drawing -- Five Michigan men leave a separation center at Fort Sheridan, Ill. after discharge.
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Map shows eastern portion of the United States with population statistics by state and per person income payments in 1940 and 1944.</p>Newsmap for the Armed Forces : U.S. role in world affairs2006-10-19T22:45:56-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc840/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc840/"><img alt="Newsmap for the Armed Forces : U.S. role in world affairs" title="Newsmap for the Armed Forces : U.S. role in world affairs" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc840/small/"/></a></p><p>Text describes U.S. role in world affairs and is keyed to map.
Map projection is "designed to minimize distortions along the 40th parallel which runs approximately through Tokyo and Washington."</p>