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Newsmap for the Armed Forces : Moscow conference decisions
Date: 1946-01-07
Creator: [United States.] Army Information Branch
Description: Front:
Text describes 5 Moscow conference decisions.
Maps: Moscow conference decisions as reflected on the global map.
Includes photograph of Ernest Bevin (Britain), V. M. Molotov (Russia) and James F. Byrnes (U.S.)
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Reenlistment. List of reasons to reenlist. Charts of income and retirement income for enlisted classes.
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Newsmap for the Armed Forces : New Discharge Scores
Date: 1945-10-01
Creator: [United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch
Description: Front: New discharge scores are given for enlisted men, WACS, and officers. Also includes excerpts from a transcript of General Marshall's extemporaneous remarks on demobilization during an appearance before Members of Congress on 20 September [1945].
Photographs: General of the Army Marshall and General Handy confer at
their recent meeting with Senate and House members, [soldiers and
civilians].
Back: The text gives important facts about service life insurance.
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Newsmap for the Armed Forces : Occupation Begins
Date: 1945-09-10
Creator: [United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch
Description: Front: Text describes American advancement and control of Korean and Japanese cities after Japan's formal surrender on 1 Sept., United States time
Map shows Japan and Korea.
Photographs: Gen. MacArthur signs Japanese surrender terms on Battleship Missouri; Japanese foreign minister Shigemitsu signs at Tokyo Bay ceremony; Allied prisoners of war at Omori, Japan, hail their liberators.
Back: Text and color illustrations show United States Marines' activities.
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Newsmap for the Armed Forces : Operation Crossroads
Date: 1946-02-04
Creator: [United States.] Army Information Branch
Description: Front: The text and illustrations highlight the issues in the atomic age, that humanity was perhaps at its most fateful crossroads.
Photographs: Labor, industry sign wage agreements -- Radar reaches the Moon -- Pacific rendezvous -- Felix Gouin leads France -- Hans goes to the polls.
Back: Highlights of 45 years (1901 - 1945) service of the Army Nurse Corps. Includes three photographs: U.S. nurses in Britain in 1918 -- Nurses in evacuation hospital, Sicily, 1943 -- Anzio : first nurses to receive Silver Star.
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Newsmap for the Armed Forces : Strategic Concept
Date: 1945-11-19
Creator: [United States.] Army Information Branch
Description: Front: Text highlights the strategic concept that guided the Western Allies to victory in Europe.
Map shows German occupied territory as of 7 Dec 1941 in western Europe and North Africa.
Back: Text and illustration highlight the postwar job as a threefold task: Speedily demobilize those in uniform who want to return to civilian life, maintain and supply occupation forces, and provide for peacetime military strength to help ensure world security.
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Newsmap for the Armed Forces : The atomic question
Date: 1945-11-26
Creator: [United States.] Army Information Branch
Description: Front: Text highlights some of the issues of using atomic energy and weapons. Includes information on the three-nation [U.S., Great Britain, Canada] declaration on atomic energy.
Photographs: Smoke from an atomic bomb blast towers miles above Nagasaki; All but the base of a steel tower holding an atomic bomb was vaporized during test explosion in New Mexico; Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer; These men took part in the atomic bomb conferences at the White House : Prime Minister Attlee; President Truman; Prime Minister Mackenzie King; T. L. Rowan, Attlee's secretary; Dr. Vannevar Bush, U. S. expert; Maj. Gen. E. I. C. Jacob, British expert; Representative Charles A. Eaton of New Jersey; Senator Brian McMahon of Connecticut; Canadian Ambassador Lester B. Pearson; Secretary of State James F. Byrnes; Representative Sol Bloom of New York; Admiral William D. Leahy; the Japanese city of Hiroshima after it had been leveled by an atomic bomb.
Back: Text and illustration give a progress report on demobilization of Army, Marines, and Navy as of 1 November 1945.
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Newsmap for the Armed Forces : Troop deployment
Date: 1945-12-24
Creator: [United States.] Army Information Branch
Description: Front:
Chart of U.S. troop deployment is keyed to world maps.
3 maps include Asiatic-Pacific, European, American areas of deployment.
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V-E, V-J, VD : there is an enemy still to be defeated.
Text warns of venereal diseases.
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Newsmap for the Armed Forces : U.S. fights world famine
Date: 1946-03-04
Creator: [United States.] Army Information Branch
Description: Front:
Text describes U.S. efforts to export grain to European countries to counteract starvation.
Map: Average diets in European countries, based on the UNRRA Emergency Economic Committee Report of 6 February 1946.
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For peace and our country - It's our job to : disarm the enemy, destroy his power, protect our country's interests, secure the peace, keep America strong. Text and illustration.
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Newsmap for the Armed Forces : U.S. role in world affairs
Date: 1945-12-17
Creator: [United States.] Army Information Branch
Description: Text describes U.S. role in world affairs and is keyed to map.
Map projection is "designed to minimize distortions along the 40th parallel which runs approximately through Tokyo and Washington."
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Newsmap for the Armed Forces : UNO progress report
Date: 1946-03-11
Creator: [United States.] Army Information Branch
Description: Front:
Text describes the first meeting of the United Nations Organization.
Maps:Proposed location of UNO corporate office -- Areas discussed at first Security Council meeting.
Includes photographs: 1. Where Security Council will meet -- 2. UNO Site Committee -- 3. Secretary-General Trygve Lie -- 4. President Paul-Henri Spaak. Also includes: United Nations Organization [list of member countries].
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USAFI H.Q. Madison 3, Wisconsin, USA : for information--see your I and E officer ... Text describes the USAFI education program. Chart lists USAFI locations throughout the world.
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