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Newsmap for the Armed Forces : 4 years after Pearl Harbor
Date: 1945-12-10
Creator: [United States.] Army Information Branch
Description: Front:
Text describes photographs: U.S. destroyer Shaw -- Third Fleet Unit -- Nazis march in Vienna -- 35th Infantry Division troops in Polch, Poland -- Joachim von Ribbentrop -- Signatures on the United Nations Security Charter -- Nipponese who helped capture the headquarters of Chinese 29th Army at Tungchow -- Pfc. Cecil Cunningham, of St. Louis, MO in Tokyo -- Navy Secretary Frank Knox draws the second number in the Third Selective Service drawing -- Five Michigan men leave a separation center at Fort Sheridan, Ill. after discharge.
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Map shows eastern portion of the United States with population statistics by state and per person income payments in 1940 and 1944.
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Newsmap for the Armed Forces : Air Transport Command
Date: 1945-11-05
Creator: [United States.] Army Information Branch
Description: Front: Map with text shows routes of the Army's Air Transport Command as of 1 September 1945.
Back: The text and maps highlight the Naval Air Transport Service (Atlantic and Pacific wings).
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Newsmap for the Armed Forces : Army Plan for Unifying Armed Forces
Date: 1945-11-12
Creator: [United States.] Army Information Branch
Description: Front: Text and chart show chain of command and
organizational structure in the proposed unified armed forces. The
plan was presented to the Senate Military Affairs Committee on 30
October 1945.
Back: Illustration of a young woman with crossed fingers has caption emphasizing the need to save some of that hard-earned money.
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Newsmap for the Armed Forces : Changes in Army and Navy commands
Date: 1945-12-03
Creator: [United States.] Army Information Branch
Description: Front:
Text describes Generals Marshall, Eisenhower, and McNarney, as well as Admirals King, Nimitz, and Spruance.
Includes 6 photographs.
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Where will the best jobs be? Illustration and text.
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Newsmap for the Armed Forces : Code for the Conquered
Date: 1945-10-08
Creator: [United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch
Description: Front: Text describes principal points which disestablish the Reich and eliminate its war-making powers
Photograph: A group of men in uniform and in street dress stand in the foreground appearing to read the code for the conquered.
Back: Illustration of a serviceman in a hand-held test tube is accompanied by text giving points about identifying and preparing to pick a civilian job after discharge from the service.
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Newsmap for the Armed Forces : Demobilization
Date: 1946-01-28
Creator: [United States.] Army Information Branch
Description: Front: Text and illustrations highlight the three phases of the demobilization plan.
Back: A message from General Eisenhower (from an address delivered at Ottawa, 10 January 1946).
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Newsmap for the Armed Forces : Demobilization Program.
Date: 1945-09-24
Creator: [United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch
Description: Front:
Maps: Silhouette maps of Japan and Korea, U.S., and Germany and Austria help illustrate the distribution of men in the Army as of 1 July 1946.
Back: Text and color illustrations show various shoulder insignia of United States Army combat divisions with a partial list of their combat locations (World War II).
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Newsmap for the Armed Forces : End of a myth
Date: 1946-01-14
Creator: [United States.] Army Information Branch
Description: Front: The text highlights the methods by which Japan adopted democractic principals after the war ended.
Map: a typical Japanese village on Echigo Plain.
Photographs: Images of Hirohito dressed in royal robes and Western style clothing
Back: The 1946 calendar. Phrase: Soldiers' deposits pay 4% interest : see your personnel officer.
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Newsmap for the Armed Forces : Iran, rich land poor land
Date: 1946-02-18
Creator: [United States.] Army Information Branch
Description: Front: Text and illustrations highlight one of the
kingdom of Iran and its vast, untapped oil reserves.
Map: Iran.
Photographs: The Shah of Iran, Mohamed Reza Pahlevi; British troops guard an oil refinery at Aradian; Mosque of Suz.
Back: Text offers suggestions for making the most of post-war vocational and educational opportunities. Includes 7 photographs. Chart, Postwar Plans of Soldiers, is based on a survey conducted by the Research Branch of the Information-Education Division.
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Newsmap for the Armed Forces : Japan's empire, its advance and retreat
Date: 1945-08-27
Creator: [United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch
Description: Front:
Text chart of the history of Japan's empire from 1895 to 19 August, 1945.
4 maps: Japanese empire, 1931; Japanese empire, Dec. 1941; Japanese empire, Aug. 1942 ; Japanese holdings as war ended.
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"Please...get there and back!": contains photographs and text about the Army Transportation Corps. Includes picture of a woman's face.
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