Newsmap. 230th week of the war, 112th week of U.S. participation / Monday, February 7, 1944, week of January 27 to February 3 :
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| Format: | Government Document Map |
| Language: | English |
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New York, N.Y. :
Army Information Branch,
[1944]
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| Item Description: | War fronts: Central Pacific, Italy, USSR, Air war, Burma. Photographic images: Artillery technique in Italy; American helmets of the 25th Division and hats of a New Zealand brigade mingle at Vella Lavella; Navy mobile photographic laboratory comes ashore in the Solomons; African Goummiers of the Fifth Army don traditional gowns over American uniforms; "Pilots of the 99th Fighter Squadron, first all-Negro USAAF organization to see action ... officers in the photograph are all Tuskegee University students" ; German transport vehicles retreat from the Soviet front; Photographer positioned where a .50 caliber gun would be mounted in a Navy reconnaissance Liberator; Soldiers stuff 250 pamphlets into each 25 pound shell in Italy; Fifth Army infantry battalion's 81 mm. mortars travel by mule in Venafro. "Prepared from public sources of information." Volume II no. 42, designated F and B for front and back. "U.S. Government Printing Office, 1944 - 538110." On verso: "Jap army uniforms." Text and color illustrations, poster. |
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| Physical Description: | 2 maps on 1 sheet : color ; on sheet 90 x 120 cm Also available online. |