5 U.S. fighter pilot East Asia escape cloth maps
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Heading: (China - World War II escape map)
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Title: Five US Army Air Force pilot silk escape maps of East Asia from World War II
Place Published: Washington, D.C.
Publisher:Army Map Service, U.S. Army
Date Published: 1943-1944
Description: 5 double-sided color maps on rayon-acetate cloth. Includes:
Kanazawa, NJ 53 [and] Sendai, NJ 54. 1943.
Buir Nor, NL 50 [and] Tsitsihar (Lung-Chiang), NL 51.
Harbin, NL 52 [and] Spassk-Dal'niy, NL 53. 1943.
Otomari, NL 54 [and] Vladimiro-Alexsandrovskoye, NK 53. 1944.
North Burma, Nos. 30-31. 1943.
These were issued to US Army Air Force pilots during World War II to be pocketed or worn as neck kerchiefs under their flight suits as part of their survival gear, to evade enemy capture in the event they were shot down. Legend shows cities, towns, rivers, marshes, roads, trails, railroads, telegraph lines and related information. Lot also includes later map: Roma - Sarajevo, North K.33 & parts 32, 34 [and] Tunis - Palermo, North J.33 & parts 32, 34. 1952.
Author:
Title: Five US Army Air Force pilot silk escape maps of East Asia from World War II
Place Published: Washington, D.C.
Publisher:Army Map Service, U.S. Army
Date Published: 1943-1944
Description: 5 double-sided color maps on rayon-acetate cloth. Includes:
Kanazawa, NJ 53 [and] Sendai, NJ 54. 1943.
Buir Nor, NL 50 [and] Tsitsihar (Lung-Chiang), NL 51.
Harbin, NL 52 [and] Spassk-Dal'niy, NL 53. 1943.
Otomari, NL 54 [and] Vladimiro-Alexsandrovskoye, NK 53. 1944.
North Burma, Nos. 30-31. 1943.
These were issued to US Army Air Force pilots during World War II to be pocketed or worn as neck kerchiefs under their flight suits as part of their survival gear, to evade enemy capture in the event they were shot down. Legend shows cities, towns, rivers, marshes, roads, trails, railroads, telegraph lines and related information. Lot also includes later map: Roma - Sarajevo, North K.33 & parts 32, 34 [and] Tunis - Palermo, North J.33 & parts 32, 34. 1952.
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Occasional foxing and old folds, else near fine.
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5 U.S. fighter pilot East Asia escape cloth maps
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