DESCRIPTION: SOLD
Newsprint map published on August 22, 1943 by the Pittsburg Sun-Telegraph in the Pictorial Review section detailing potential Japanese war plans to attack the US mainland.
"JAPAN EXPECTS TO WIND UP HER WAR with occupation of Western United States to the Rocky Mountains, and with capture of the Panama Canal and all of Central America. That is indicated by a 1941 Tokyo war map stolen by a Korean cabin boy from a Japanese army officer traveling as a tourist to the United States. The map is represented on two pages herewith."
Even before the attacks on Pearl Harbor in December, 1941, and on the Aleutian Islands in August, 1942 the Los Angeles Examiner published a pictorial map by Howard Burke that detailed a potential invasion strategy that tracked fairly well to Japan's early moves in the Pacific.
In August, 1943 the Pittsburg Sun-Telegraph Pictorial Review, along with other newspapers, published this map, supposedly stolen by a Korean nationalist agent Kilsoo Haan, in 1941. A very similar map actually had been published in Japan during 1935 and detailed a plan to invade the United States and to occupy the West Coast. Although American military intelligence discounted the possibility of a full-scale invasion by Japan, news outlets published the map playing on the invasion fears of the public.
PUBLICATION DATE: 1943
GEOGRAPHIC AREA: United States
BODY OF WATER: Pacific Ocean
CONDITION: Fair.
Small edge chips and tears. Small holes at folds. Browned, on newsprint.
COLORING: Two-color offset.
ENGRAVER:
SIZE: 31
" x
22 "
ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 90
PRICE: $
ADD TO CART
|