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| 6488 |  | Details | Pittsburgh Sun Telegraph | 1943 |
| WWII Japanese Invasion Scare Map |
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Pittsburgh Sun Telegraph |
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| 1943 |
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| $0.00 | Pittsburgh-Sun-Telegraph | WWII-Japanese-Invasion-Scare-Map | SOLD<br><br>
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.
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<strong>"JAPAN EXPECTS TO WIND UP HER WAR</strong> 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."
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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.
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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.
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