Post by lordroel on Jun 14, 2016 18:20:39 GMT
Introduction
On November 7th 1937, the Los Angeles Examiner published a prescient map predicting how Imperial Japan could attack the US during World War II.
Created by Howard A. Burke, the map imagined a Japanese attack on the US that closely predicted the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor four years later on December 7, 1941. Burke rightly noted that Japan's first target would be Hawaii and the US fleet docked at Pearl Harbor.
"The first objective must be capture of Hawaii," Burke notes on the map. "This would mean crippling or annihilating the United States Pacific fFeet, giving Japan one of the world's greatest naval bases — Pearl Harbor."
After that attack, Burke then imagined that Japan would follow up the assault with a two-pronged naval and aerial strike from Hawaii against Los Angeles and San Francisco, with a simultaneous Japanese assault from Alaska working its way down the Pacific Northwest.
Links of interest
The maps can be found on the JF Ptak Science Books where the article was posted called Japan Attacks L.A. (and the Rest of Us) in 1938
The maps can also be found on the P.J. Mode Persuasive Map Collection website in better detail.
Maps detailing the Japanese attack
The map depicting the Japanese attack on California:
The map depicting the Japanese attack on the city of San Francisco:
And the full page, showing the importance of the Aleutians to the general plan:
On November 7th 1937, the Los Angeles Examiner published a prescient map predicting how Imperial Japan could attack the US during World War II.
Created by Howard A. Burke, the map imagined a Japanese attack on the US that closely predicted the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor four years later on December 7, 1941. Burke rightly noted that Japan's first target would be Hawaii and the US fleet docked at Pearl Harbor.
"The first objective must be capture of Hawaii," Burke notes on the map. "This would mean crippling or annihilating the United States Pacific fFeet, giving Japan one of the world's greatest naval bases — Pearl Harbor."
After that attack, Burke then imagined that Japan would follow up the assault with a two-pronged naval and aerial strike from Hawaii against Los Angeles and San Francisco, with a simultaneous Japanese assault from Alaska working its way down the Pacific Northwest.
Links of interest
The maps can be found on the JF Ptak Science Books where the article was posted called Japan Attacks L.A. (and the Rest of Us) in 1938
The maps can also be found on the P.J. Mode Persuasive Map Collection website in better detail.
Maps detailing the Japanese attack
The map depicting the Japanese attack on California:
The map depicting the Japanese attack on the city of San Francisco:
And the full page, showing the importance of the Aleutians to the general plan:
