Tokyo Bay Area - Heart of Japan's Empire.
1945ref. 209335Chicago.: Chicago Daily Tribune. 28 July1945. Colour bird's eye view map 22.4 x 39.3 cms on a newspaper leaf trimmed to a half sheet 29.8 x 41.6 cms including caption slight toning at an old central fold the map in very good condition. Unrelated black and white photographic illustrations on the verso "Pre-flight Trainers used in Chicago to give ground instruction to would-be pilots" and "New rekindled Montauk Light Long Island N.Y." Map published in the Chicago Daily Tribune days before the bombing of Hiroshima on August 61945. "Perspective map of Tokyo bay and contiguous land and sea areas showing Tokyo Yokohama the Yokosuka naval base industrial sections and other features .In this map north is at the right instead of at the top - an expedient adopted to show all of the bay as large as possible in half page space." caption . Chicago Daily Tribune. unknown
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