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Alaska: Springboard for Our Attack Upon Japan
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Alaska: Springboard for Our Attack Upon Japan

This is a Minneapolis Sunday Tribune and Star Journal front page with two maps. The top map depicts a map of the Arctic and surrounding areas. Meant to explain the strategic importance of Alaska in the current war (World War II), air routes from Anchorage are illustrated to several cities. The bottom map is a specific map of Alaska. Several text boxes inform about the importance of Alaska. A text box, entitled, 'The Strategy of Alaska is Based on Modern Aviation' discusses the concept of the 'great circle' routes in aviation and that arctic air travel routes are shorter due to the 'tight, sharp curves of the earth' closer to the pole. A small inset map superimposes Alaska over the continental United States, providing an idea of the relative size of the state versus the continental U.S.

Date
July 5, 1942
Mapmaker / publisher
Warner Nelson
Place
Alaska
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
3,811 × 5,300 pixels

Public domain

Reason: its maker died long enough ago that the copyright has expired.

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"Alaska: Springboard for Our Attack Upon Japan" (July 5, 1942). Warner Nelson, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alaska,_1942.jpg

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