[WWII MAP OF JAPAN AND THE PACIFIC]

A New War Map of the Aleutian Island Sea Road to Japan. [caption title]

Chicago. Chicago Daily Tribune. 28 January, 1942. Stock ID #206849

Printed colour map, 40.3 x 53.6 cm; 46.5 x 60 cm (sheet), inset map of the North Pacific, back cover from a section of the Chicago Daily Tribune newspaper (pages 21-34) January 28, 1942; central fold, edgewear and browning with a few minor tears not affecting the map, in very good condition.

Based on a Rand McNally map and issued less than two months after the bombing of Pearl Harbour by the Japanese. The Tribune briskly got to work issuing maps for readers showing the beginnings of the war with Japan. Later maps were also published for sale separately, but remarkably few have survived. The map shows "the nearness of our Aleutian Island chain, west of Alaska, to the islands of Japan. At Dutch Harbor and other points in the Aleutians are actual and potential sea and air bases, lying on the shortest route from northwestern United States to Japan." The inset map at lower right situates the areas in the larger map in respect to the countries bordering the North Pacific Ocean.

Included with the map is the complete newspaper section from which it is the final full page. Covering sport and the market (with half a dozen popular comic strips including "Dick Tracy" and "Little Orphan Annie") it shows a domestic United States a world away from what had been seen as a European War.

"... the historic Chicago Tribune was an innovator in color inks and printing, but also a pioneer in bringing colorful art in the form of illustrations, photographs, cartoons and advertisements to the average person in an everyday medium." [see The Janet A. Ginsburg Chicago Tribune Collection, Michigan State University Libraries.]"

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Price: $600.00 AU

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