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Newsmap for the Armed Forces : Moscow conference decisions
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.) Back: Reenlistment. List of reasons to reenlist. Charts of income and retirement income for enlisted classes.
Date:
January 7, 1946
Creator:
[United States.] Army Information Branch.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Newsmap for the Armed Forces : U.S. role in world affairs
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."
Date:
December 17, 1945
Creator:
[United States.] Army Information Branch.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. V-E Day + 14 weeks, 191st week of U.S. participation in the war
Front: Summary of Potsdam conference. War News 7 August. Map shows European boundaries as of January 1938. Inset map details administration of eastern Germany and East Prussia. Back: Map of Formosa; inset map shows location of Formosa in Asia.
Date:
August 13, 1945
Creator:
[United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 295th week of the war, 177th week of U.S. participation
Front: Maps show military activities throughout Europe, China, and the Philippines during the week. Inset map: Pacific action Photograph: U.S. Sixty-Ninth Division Infantrymen greet Red Army soldiers on the Elbe River bridge at Torgau. Accompanied by timeline showing dates, key cities, and mileage for both armies to meet. Back: [oblique col. map]: Japan from Siberia.
Date:
May 7, 1945
Creator:
[United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 289th week of the war, 171st week of U.S. participation
Front: Text: Rhine bridgehead, Saar breakthrough, Berlin threat, Slow squeeze, Rich target, Principal port, "Jap Pittsburgh," Empire's heart. Maps: Bonn-Koblenz; Saarbrucken-Frankfurt; Stettin-Berlin; Danzig-Konigsberg; Kyushu; Kobe-Osaka; Nagoya; Tokyo. Back: Text, photographs, and illustrations highlight some facts about the U.S.S.R.
Date:
March 26, 1945
Creator:
[United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 288th week of the war, 170th week of U.S. participation
Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Americans Cross Rhine; New Philippine Landings; Allies in Mandalay. Maps: Red Army menaces Oder line, Road to Mandalay, Mindanao P.I. Includes distance scale from Linz east to Berlin and from Zehden west to Berlin. Back: Map of the Pacific and the Far East. Inset maps: Ryukyu Retto, Okinawa, Saipan, Iwo-Jima, Paramushiru, Chisima Retto (Kurile Is.).
Date:
March 19, 1945
Creator:
[United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 270th week of the war, 152nd week of U.S. participation
Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Drive to Free Port, Russian Soil Cleared, B-29s Bomb Singapore, Leyte Action, Eleventh Army Group, Maps: [Eastern Europe], Road to Cologne [Germany], Philippines (Northern Half), Netherlands Battle Front. Back: Post-war plans: a series of four cartoons emphasize the importance of a soldier using money wisely if he wants to achieve post-war goals. Options listed are soldiers' deposits, personal transfer account, class E allotments of pay, war bonds, and national service life insurance.
Date:
November 13, 1944
Creator:
[United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 264th week of the war, 146th week of U.S. participation
Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: France, Eastern front, China, Pacific, Italy. Maps: Eastern Europe; France; China front; Gulf of Genoa. Back: "If each of us wastes a pound of war material..." Text and illustration show that it isn't just money, materials or manpower that are lost. But, waste can lose battles and cost lives.
Date:
October 2, 1944
Creator:
[United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 252nd week of the war, 134th week of U.S. participation
Front: Text describes action on various war fronts : France, Eastern front, Italy, Marianas, Southwest Pacific, Southeast Asia, China. Map insets: Bay of the Seine, southeastern Asia, central Italy, Poland-USSR border. Back: Map of the Po Valley, Italy.
Date:
July 10, 1944
Creator:
[United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 251st week of the war, 133rd week of U.S. participation
Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: France, Eastern front, Italy, Air war, Southeast Asia, China, Saipan, Pacific, Southwest Pacific. Maps: Finland, North Burma, France, Eastern front. Back: Text and color illustrations explain the importance of teamwork, preparation, and support in combined or amphibious operations.
Date:
July 3, 1944
Creator:
[United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 250th week of the war, 132nd week of U.S. participation
Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: France ; Marianas ; Biak ; Japan ; Italy ; Eastern Front ; China ; Southeast Asia. Maps: [Eastern Hemisphere] ; Italy ; Liberated Area of France ; Karelian Isthmus ; [American Advance on Saipan]. Back: Map of the Far East, copyright, National Geographic Society, used by special permission. Scale [ca. 1:10,000,000]. "International Boundaries as of Sept. 1, 1939, the day Germany invaded Poland." Transverse Polyconic Projection.
Date:
June 26, 1944
Creator:
[United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 247th week of the war, 129th week of U.S. participation
Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Italy, Western Europe, USSR, Pacific, Southeast Asia, China. Maps: Approach to Rome; northern New Guinea. Includes photographs: U.S. Navy plane on patrol duty; American jeep passes by a disabled German self-propelled 88mm. gun in the Spigno area; Ensign R. Black, Navy hellcat pilot of Brigham, Utah exits from his shattered plane. Back: Air commandos. Text and 8 photographs tell the story of air commandos in Asia.
Date:
June 5, 1944
Creator:
[United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 246th week of the war, 128th week of U.S. participation
Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Italy, Pacific, USSR, China, Southeast Asia, Western Europe. Maps: Central Italy showing current offensive areas and the battle line as of 11 May, 1944; Extent of Allied ground force operations. Includes photographs: 20,000 ft. column of smoke rising from Ploesti, Romania; Supply column heads north through Castelforte, Italy; American soldier walks through piles of rubble in the aftermath of heavy shelling; Amphibious "ducks" outside Anzio, laden with supplies for Fifth Army troops; Tanks emerge from the Assam Hills in northern India; Army nurse Lt. Jane Easton of Atlantic City, NJ and nurse Doru Chu of China tend to Corp. George Sammy of Gary, Ind. in China, Lt. La Retta Matthews of Lakeland, FL and Lt. Carolyn Taylor, Douglaston, L.I., N.Y. converse with a fabric shop owner in a Chinese city. Back: New Guinea. Map (continuation of map issued in Newsmap v. 2, no. 37).
Date:
May 29, 1944
Creator:
[United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 245th week of the war, 127th week of U.S. participation
Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Italy, Pacific, Southeast Asia, China, Western Europe, USSR. Maps show Allied attacks from India and China into Burma; Current battle line in central Italy. Includes photographs: Nazi 170mm and American 200mm. mobile guns at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.; Shells belonging to the Nazi and American guns; German paratroopers during street fighting in Cassino; Self-propelled German gun mounted on a Mark III chassis advances toward Allied positions in Cassino; Road sign posted near the Allied beachhead below Rome warns Allied forces against touching "butterfly bombs". Back: Your battleship and her requirements. Illustration of a battleship with text describing man hours required to design and build, materials to build, material to operate.
Date:
May 22, 1944
Creator:
[United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 244th week of the war, 126th week of U.S. participation
Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Air war, Eastern front, China, Burma-India, Italy, Pacific. Maps: China-Burma; Sevastopol; Insets: Crimea. Includes 8 photographs. Back: Moscow to Berlin. Map.
Date:
May 15, 1944
Creator:
[United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 242nd week of the war, 124th week of U.S. participation
Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Western Europe, USSR, Italy, Southwest Pacific, Central Pacific, Southeast Asia, China. Map: Southwest Pacific showing areas of action. Includes photographs: Various sizes of bombs; German self-propelled gun with an American tank and a Nazi armored personnel carrier in the background; Capsized liberty ship in Naples harbor; View of Sabang Harbour before being taken by Japanese; Allied planes carry out some of the heaviest bombing operations at Hollandia airfield. Back: Memorandum for the Armed Forces. Subject: Home front production. Includes photographs: Guns; Shells; Vehicles; Planes; Ships. Text includes 4 point memorandum and descriptions of photographs.
Date:
May 1, 1944
Creator:
[United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 240th week of the war, 122nd week of U.S. participation
Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: USSR; Air war; Southeast Asia; Central Pacific; Southwest Pacific. Maps: Burma; Dutch New Guinea/ North-East New Guinea/ Papua./ Relief shown by shading. Includes 6 photographs. Back: Are the folks at home backing us up? . . . . Text describes war bond purchasing on the homefront. Includes illustrations.
Date:
April 17, 1944
Creator:
[United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 239th week of the war, 121st week of U.S. participation
Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: USSR, Air war, Central Pacific, Southwest Pacific, Italy, Submarines, Southeast Asia. Maps: Western Europe; Caroline Islands; Eastern front. Includes photographs: German wood box mine, New Zealand soldiers hold captured German soldiers, German-laid mines explode outside Cassino, the destruction of Cassino by Allied bombs. Back: Map of North Burma.
Date:
April 10, 1944
Creator:
[United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 238th week of the war, 120th week of U.S. participation
Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Eastern front, Burma, Western Europe, Italy, Southwest Pacific, Kuriles. Maps show Eastern Front; S. W. Pacific - Northern Bismarcks. Includes 9 photographs, 3 showing aerial incendiaries. Back: Southeastern Europe. Map.
Date:
April 3, 1944
Creator:
[United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 237th week of the war, 119th week of U.S. participation
Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Southeast Asia, Italy, USSR, Southwest Pacific, Central Pacific, Kuriles. Maps: Central Pacific; Cassino area; Burma. Insets: Cassino. Includes 6 photographs. Back: USS Ranger. 10 photographs and text illustrate recent operations.
Date:
March 27, 1944
Creator:
[United States.] Army Service Forces. Morale Services Division. Army Information Branch.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 236th week of the war, 118th week of U.S. participation
Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: USSR, Italy, Western Europe, Central Pacific, Bougainville, New Britain, Admiralty Is., New Guinea, Southeast Asia. Map: U.S.S.R. Southern Front Includes 10 photographs. Back: Europe. Map.
Date:
March 20, 1944
Creator:
[United States.] Army Service Forces. Morale Services Division. Army Information Branch.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 234th week of the war, 116th week of U.S. participation
Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Western Europe, USSR, Finland, Italy, Southwest Pacific, Central Pacific, Burma. Maps show Current battle lines along Russian border and Rumania, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland ; Central Italy. Includes photographs: Dauga Airfield after 5th Air Force B-25 medium bombers leave Japanese planes destroyed. Japanese captured by U.S. Coast Guardsmen off Kwajalein. Lt. Eugune R. Hanks of Gibbs, Idaho in his Grumman Hellcat fighter. U.S. tank officer explains the target to Gen. Eishenhower while Air Marshall Tedder watches. Gliders built in England for the Allied Forces. U.S. combat cars await dispatch on a field in the English countryside. Field Marshall Rommel inspects Nazi fortifications. British soldiers near the Garigliano River. Three "Yanks" at the Anzio beachhead. Mortar crew of the 36th division below Cassino. American paratroopers capture Nazi snipers. Pvt. Robert Steinmetz of Pittsburgh with a mule he rescued from an Italian farm. Composite aerial view of Italian coast including Anzio and Nettuno. Back: Luftwaffe (German Air Force) uniforms. Text and illustrations of Flying Suits, Miscellaneous Uniforms, Parachutist Uniforms, Continental Uniforms.
Date:
March 6, 1944
Creator:
[United States.] Army Service Forces. Morale Services Division. Army Information Branch.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 233rd week of the war, 115th week of U.S. participation
Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Central Pacific, Southwest Pacific, Air war, Burma, USSR. Maps show air attacks from London to various sites in Germany; New Ireland; south Pacific; Truk Is. Includes photographs: "Island forts", Marine corps set up radio telephone sets at Roi Island, Leathernecks set up machine guns immediately upon landing, All-Negro Ninety-Ninth Fighter Squadron at Anzio, German prisoners disembark from an LST to a prison camp, wounded female Jugoslav guerillas arrive in Malta, General Sir Harold Alexander chats with Yank rangers near Cisterno. Back: Text states "In Mein Kampf, Hitler stated that his plan was to destroy France first, then England, after which he would have the United States cornered without a fight!."
Date:
February 28, 1944
Creator:
[United States.] Army Service Forces. Morale Services Division. Army Information Branch.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Newsmap. Monday, February 21, 1944 : week of February 10 to February 17 : 232nd week of the war, 114th week of U.S. participation
Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Italy, USSR, Western Europe, Southwest Pacific, Central Pacific, Submarines. Maps show the Gulf of Finland, Russia; Italy. Inset map shows Cassino area, Italy. Includes 11 photographs. Back: Landing Craft. Illustrations and photographs of various landing craft with descriptive text.
Date:
February 21, 1944
Creator:
[United States.] Army Service Forces. Morale Services Division. Army Information Branch.
System:
The UNT Digital Library