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Propagandistic large-format World War II "Newsmap", providing up-to-date coverage to American servicemen, while tending to downplay Axis gains.
Appropriately titled "Pacific Actions," issued two weeks after Victory in Europe Day and covering the week of May 8th through the 15th, this newsmap focuses on the China-Burma-India and Pacific Theaters. The verso shows an American soldier buttstroking a Japanese soldier in the face with his rifle. A map of the northern hemisphere from the North Pole with sea and land routes between various bases is included to emphasize the "immense problems of logistics confronting the Allies in shifting their weight from Europe to the East."
The verso shows an American soldier butt-stroking a Japanese soldier, armed with two swords, knocking off his glasses.
This series was first published on April 27, 1942, by the Orientation Course Section. The course distributed the maps to company-sized units of the Army, libraries, and Service clubs, and the army in turn distributed them to other branches of the military. Newsmaps were edited in New York, initially under the Special Service Division and then the Morale Services Division after its establishment, and except for overseas editions, printed in Chicago.
![[ Indian Ocean - Sailing to Batavia ] Route Exacte De Gamron a Batavia et de Batavia a Gamron](https://storage.googleapis.com/raremaps/img/small/44380.jpg)
![[6 Sheet Wall Map of Asia] L'Asie divisee suivant l'Estendue de ses Principales Parties dans lesquelles sont distinguees les unes de autres Les Empires, Monarchies, Estats et Principaux Peuples qui partagent a present L'Asie . . . 1719](https://storage.googleapis.com/raremaps/img/small/80841.jpg)
