How Japan could attack U.S., 1937
A prescient 1937 map of a Japanese attack on the U.S., highlighting the significance of Pearl Harbor: "The first objective must be capture of Hawaii This would mean crippling or annihilating the U.S. fleet." Japanese planes and ships cover the Pacific, and insets show the bombing of Los Angeles and San Francisco.
- Date
- November 7, 1937
- Mapmaker / publisher
- Howard Burke
- Place
- the Pacific Ocean
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 1,948 × 2,437 pixels
Public domainsafest
Reason: its US copyright was not renewed (published 1931–1963).
Read from: Commons licence category: PD US not renewed; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
Credit line
"How Japan could attack U.S., 1937" (November 7, 1937). Howard Burke, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:How_Japan_could_attack_U.S.,_1937.jpgNeed maps for a whole project? Add Find Any Map to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 139194.
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