Item Description
Original Item: Only One Available. This is a set of two silk wartime maps of Japan. The first is dated 1944 and features Nagasaki and Kagoshima. The second map is a Current and Surface Wind Map for Japan and the great Eastern Asia coast.
The first map is an excellent condition WWII Army Air Force cloth 2-sided color "escape" map which was issued to pilots and bombing crews which is dated 1944. Condition is excellent, though there are stains from decades of storage and age. 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 NAGASAKI NI 52 and shows Nagasaki, the harbor and surrounding islands, as well as Fukouka, the Korea Strait, and portions of Korea.
Reverse side top border reads EASTERN ASIA 1:1,000,000 KAGOSHIMA NH 52 and shows Kagoshima and the southern tip of Japan, as well as the East China Sea and Pacific Ocean.
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 1935, 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 such as this one 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.
The second map reads OCEAN CURRENTS AND SURFACE WINDS FOR THE WEST PACIFIC AREA NOVEMBER - APRIL. The map is silk, full color, single sided and measures approximately 18.5" x 17.5" and is offered in very good condition.
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