Pulp Action from the Wild West through the Dirty 30s and More.
NEWSMAP – Japanese Army Uniform Guide Poster, 1944
[United States.] Army Service Forces. Morale Services Division. Army Information Branch. Newsmap. Monday, February 7, 1944 : week of January 27 to February 3, 230th week of the war, 112th week of U.S. participation, poster, February 7, 1944; [Washington, D.C.]. University of North Texas Libraries, Digital Library, digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.
He looks so much taller on the big screen…
When an officer just returned from service in Bataan and Malaya was shown this bulletin, he said that it should carry this comment:
“A careful reading of this bulletin may save your life.”
Japan deserves the concentrated attention of all our armed forces in the Pacific. One way to give the enemy attention is to find out all we can about him. This book is provided for that purpose. Other ways are by bombing his cities, sinking his shipping and destroying his factories. We are doing that. The best attention we can pay him is to invade his homeland. Every island we have taken has been a stepping stone to the Japanese Empire. In war it is not the first step but the last which count the most. On the sea and under the sea, through the air and across the land we will move together in the final step to victory.
C.W. Nimitz,
Fleet Admiral, U.S. Navy.
(Reformatted from history.navy.mil, appears to be missing some illustrations)
Warfare spreads into the Antarctic, obviously inspired by Admiral Byrd’s Antarctic Snow Cruiser “Big Bertha”
Maps of the Japanese Empire in 1936 and 1942, from Life magazine, April 16, 1945
Japanese Governmental Railways type C53 steam locomotive, hauling train No.43. The No.43 was the only type C53 locomotive to receive the streamlined style. Photo taken at Nishiakashi.
