Description:
Front:
Text describes action on various war fronts: Cologne and Essen flattened -- Tiny subs find Sydney ready -- the Japanese "save face" -- Army of 4 1/2 million for '42 -- Mexico welcomed into war -- Rommel's forces turned -- Hitler's hangman dies -- Poison gas used in China -- Armies shift in Russia.
Large world map is keyed to text and illustrates time zones around the world.
Inset maps show Libyan battle, Dutch Harbor, Axis drives and British attacks at Libyan; Unalaska Is.; Unalaska…
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Date:
June 8, 1942
Creator:
[United States.] Army Orientation Course.
Description:
Front: Text describes action on various war fronts. Large world map is keyed to text and illustrates time zones around the world. Inset maps: [Rostov area] ; [Tunisia coast]. Includes 8 photographs.
Back: The World at War map indicates points where U.S. forces are stationed.
Date:
February 8, 1943
Creator:
[United States.] Army Orientation Course.
Description:
Front:
Text describes action on various war fronts: New Guinea -- Solomons -- Submarines -- Tunisia -- Russia -- Western Europe.
Large world map is keyed to text and illustrates time zones around the world.
Inset maps show Tunisia -- Moscow/Leningrad region.
Includes photographs: Attack: A-20 Boston bombers in central Tunisia -- Jeep rider: South Sea islander hitches a ride on an Army jeep -- Loudspeaker on Guadalcanal -- Jap 75 on New Guinea.
Back:
German Navy uniforms and insignia. Includ…
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Date:
March 8, 1943
Creator:
[United States.] Army Orientation Course.
Description:
Text describes action on various war fronts: Russia, Italy, Air offensive, Southwest Pacific, Burma.
Large map illustrates globe view of the Atlantic Ocean from Greenland to Turkey. Inset maps: Bougainville : last stop in the Solomons, The Crimea is cut off.
Photographs: Crossing the Volturno -- Navy's new Hellcat fighter plane brings down a Japanese fighter plane nicknamed "Emily" near the Gilbert Islands.
Back: This is Ann ... she drinks blood [The text, map, and illustrations describe th…
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Date:
November 8, 1943
Creator:
[United States.] Army Orientation Course.
Description:
Front:
Text describes action on various war fronts: Air offensive, Italy, Central Pacific, Southwest Pacific, Southeast Asia, Eastern front.
Maps: New Guinea; Pre-invasion air offensive.
Includes 7 photographs.
Back:
Four approaches to Japan [from Alaska, from China-Burma, from Manchuria, from the S. W. Pacific]. Color illustrations showing the 4 approaches from perspective above the globe.
Date:
May 8, 1944
Creator:
[United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
Description:
Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Jap-Held Island Hammered from Air, Philippines take Allied Aerial Blows, Allies Blunt German Western Front Drive, Battle Rages Inside Budapest.
Maps: Burma, India, China -- Iwo-Jima -- Distance from Japan to Saipan -- Philippine targets -- Belgium region -- Central Europe -- Eastern front.
Back: Map of Germany and its approaches.
Date:
January 8, 1945
Creator:
[United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
Description:
Front: Text describes principal points which disestablish the Reich and eliminate its war-making powers
Photograph: A group of men in uniform and in street dress stand in the foreground appearing to read the code for the conquered.
Back: Illustration of a serviceman in a hand-held test tube is accompanied by text giving points about identifying and preparing to pick a civilian job after discharge from the service.
Date:
October 8, 1945
Creator:
[United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
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