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Army occupation landing, Oct. 28, '45, the bomber plant city of Nagoya, Honshi, J., target of Doolittle's raid
Marvin H. McIntyre (Attack transport ship : APA-129)
A propaganda leaflet originally issued by the Allied Forces during World War II after the invasion of Okinawa in 1945. The leaflets were designed to be airdropped on the Japanese homeland. Recto is a map showing the Allied forces closing in on the main islands of Japan. The verso states that the American forces have been augmented by troops from Europe, warning that the war is progressing rapidly towards Japan. The intent of the leaflets was to lower Japanese morale.
Recto has U.S. military 1 cent 'Four freedoms' postage stamp affixed, with official U.S. Navy postal handstamp matching the October 28, 1945 date. The back postmark, reads "U.S.S. Marvin H. McIntyre Br. New York, N.Y." also dated October 28, 1945 when transport ship was at sea in the western Pacific en route to Nagasaki, Japan, to take part in post-war Naval effort to bring home hundreds of thousands of American troops who were stranded across the Pacific Area.
On October 28, 1945, the U.S. military printed the commemorative caption onto the front side of unused fliers to serve as historic souvenirs or keepsake to celebrate the peaceful allied occupation landing on October 28, 1945 at the port of Nagoya, a critical logistical milestone for the peaceful disarmament of mainland Japan. Nagoya on the island of Honshu was a major bomber and aircraft plant city, which was attacked during the Doolittle Raid (named after its commander, Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle) on Tokyo of April 18, 1942, America's first retaliatory air strike on the Japanese mainland following the attack on Pearl Harbor.