World War, 1939-1945

An American map titled "Newsmap for the Armed Forces: Monday, June 5, 1944." The map of New Guinea and the Schouten Islands shows rivers and points of Allied activity near Biak Island, Sarmi, Wakde Island, and Hollandia. The oblique map of Italy shows rivers, roads, raised relief, drainage canals, and battle lines. Printed text and photographs reveal news on multiple fronts. Printed text and photographs on the back detail an Allied airborne landing in Burma on March 5, 1944.

The American map of western New Guinea shows rivers, relief, towns, and other details. The inset offers an oblique view of New Guinea and adjacent areas. This map is located on the back of M1762.

An American map titled "Newsmap for the Armed Forces: Monday, May 29, 1944." The map of the Italian front shows rivers, roads, drainage canals, the battle line as of May 11, 1944, and points of Allied activity. The map of the Pacific theater, focusing on New Guinea, shows rivers, relief, international boundaries, distances from Toem, New Guinea to Davao, Philippines and Yap Island, the distance from Mussau Island to Truk Island, and other details. The area within the curved line signifies the extent of Allied ground force operations.

An American map titled "Newsmap for the Armed Forces: Monday, May 22, 1944." The map of the Burma-India front shows railroads, roads, rivers, international boundaries, and points of Allied attack. The map of the Italian front shows roads, rivers, relief, current battle lines, the battle line at the beginning of the current offensive, distances to Rome from Cassino, Anzio, and Pescara, and the distance from Cassino to Anzio. Printed text and photographs reveal news on multiple fronts.

An American map titled "Newsmap for the Armed Forces: Monday, May 1, 1944." The map of the Pacific theater shows railroads, rivers, international boundaries, and other details. The locations circled, including Burma, India, Sumatra, New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, the Solomon Islands, the Marianas Islands, the Truk Islands, and the Marshall Islands, indicate areas of action. Printed text and photographs reveal news on multiple fronts.

An American map titled "Newsmap for the Armed Forces: Monday, April 24, 1944." The map of the Eastern and Italian front shows railroads, rivers, international boundaries, areas under Allied control, battle lines, and points of Allied activity. The areas circled signify an Allied air attack on German rail centers, communication centers, aircraft plants, and airfield installations. The map of Crimea shows railroads, roads, battle lines, and points of Soviet advance. Printed text and photographs reveal news on multiple fronts.

An American map titled "Newsmap for the Armed Forces: Monday, April 17, 1944." The map of Burma shows railroads, roads, rivers, international boundaries, relief, the Burma Road, and other details. The map of New Guinea, New Britain, New Ireland, Bougainville, and adjacent islands shows rivers, relief, international boundaries, and other details. Printed text and photographs reveal news on multiple fronts. Printed text and drawings on the back describe the home front effort to finance and supply the war.

An American map titled "Newsmap for the Armed Forces: Monday, April 10, 1944." The map of western Europe identifies Nazi airfields hit and industrial areas bombed by Allied air forces. The map of the Pacific theater shows the distance from Tokyo to Truk and Truk to the St. Matthias Group, Rabaul, New Britain, and Kwajalein, Marshall Islands. The map of the Eastern front shows railroads, rivers, international boundaries, Axis-Soviet boundaries in 1941, and points of Soviet activity. Printed text and photographs reveal news on multiple fronts.

The American map of northern Burma shows railroads, rivers, surfaced roads, unsurfaced roads, roads under construction, cart tracks, trails, relief, and other details. This map is located on the back of M1756.

An American map titled "Newsmap for the Armed Forces: Monday, April 3, 1944." The map of the Eastern front shows international boundaries, railroads, rivers, the Axis-Soviet boundary as of June 22, 1941, the line of farthest Axis advance in 1941-1942, and the present battle line. The map of the southwest Pacific, near the Admiralty Islands, the St. Matthias Group, New Britain, and New Ireland, shows principal trails, secondary trails, and tramways. Printed text and photographs reveal news on multiple fronts.