Item Description
Original Item: Only One Available. This is a vintage, original, never-issued WWII Army Air Force cloth 2-sided color "escape" map which is dated 1943. The war in the Pacific would eventually draw closer to a nuclear response and Japan’s unconditional surrender.
It is double sided and measures 24 inches high by 26 inches wide.
Font side top border reads EASTERN ASIA 1:1,000,000 TOKYO NI 54 and shows Tokyo, the harbor and surrounding islands.
Reverse side top border reads EASTERN ASIA 1:1,000,000 OSAKA NI 53 and shows Osaka,and much of the lower half of Japan.
The map was:
The series of maps began in early 1943 with cloth maps of Kagoshima, Nagasaki, Osaka and Tokyo, followed several months later with the rest of the maps in the series. The maps all contain a scale of 1:1,000,000 in the modified polyconic projection of the IMW The maps of Japan were drawn from Japanese Imperial Land Survey Maps dated 1933, with data revised based on intelligence reports. Chinese and Japanese place names were corrected to modified Hepburn (Romaji system). All of the maps included elevation tints, although maps without elevation tints were made specifically for the US Navy of all of the maps in this series except NL50/NL51.
A wonderful wartime map that was a necessity for our boys in the air and on the sea.
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