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Auction archive: Lot number 75

AMERICAN PROPAGANDA LEAFLET: JAPANESE BOMBING WARNING.

Estimate
US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 75

AMERICAN PROPAGANDA LEAFLET: JAPANESE BOMBING WARNING.

Estimate
US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

American Propaganda leaflet in Japanese, warning the Japanese population, to evacuate key named cities as they were about to be heavily bombed by the American Air Force. Dropped by American plane, late July, 1945. Single small format sheet. Small 8vo, 135 x 215mm. (5.5 x 8.5 inches.) Japanese text. Small clean tear at upper margin. A fine example of a "LeMay" Propaganda leaflet dropped on one of the named cities prior to July 28th 1945. Curtis Lemay was the American Air Force General responsible for the strategic bombing of Japan. The verso has a printed image of B-29 bomber in flight in the act of dropping multiple bombs on its target, with the names of the cities to be bombed placed around the borders, the recto has text in Japanese, "Read this carefully as it may save your life or the life of a relative or friend. In the next few days, the military installations in four or more of the cities named on the reverse side of this leaflet will be destroyed by American bombs ... the American Air Force, which does not wish to injure innocent people, now gives you warning to evacuate the cities named and save your lives". The list of cities includes Aomori, Ogaki, Ichinomiya, Ujiyamada and Tau, all of them bombed heavily with incendiaries on the night of 28th July 1945. The practice of US propaganda leafleting both in Europe throughout the war, and in Japan in the summer of 1945 was widespread. In the days after Hiroshima, LeMay even dropped a special leaflet over many Japanese cities, informing the Japanese people of the destruction of Hiroshima, and the destructive power of the atomic bomb, and threatened its use again.

Auction archive: Lot number 75
Auction:
Datum:
29 Jan 2021
Auction house:
Bonhams London
New York
Beschreibung:

American Propaganda leaflet in Japanese, warning the Japanese population, to evacuate key named cities as they were about to be heavily bombed by the American Air Force. Dropped by American plane, late July, 1945. Single small format sheet. Small 8vo, 135 x 215mm. (5.5 x 8.5 inches.) Japanese text. Small clean tear at upper margin. A fine example of a "LeMay" Propaganda leaflet dropped on one of the named cities prior to July 28th 1945. Curtis Lemay was the American Air Force General responsible for the strategic bombing of Japan. The verso has a printed image of B-29 bomber in flight in the act of dropping multiple bombs on its target, with the names of the cities to be bombed placed around the borders, the recto has text in Japanese, "Read this carefully as it may save your life or the life of a relative or friend. In the next few days, the military installations in four or more of the cities named on the reverse side of this leaflet will be destroyed by American bombs ... the American Air Force, which does not wish to injure innocent people, now gives you warning to evacuate the cities named and save your lives". The list of cities includes Aomori, Ogaki, Ichinomiya, Ujiyamada and Tau, all of them bombed heavily with incendiaries on the night of 28th July 1945. The practice of US propaganda leafleting both in Europe throughout the war, and in Japan in the summer of 1945 was widespread. In the days after Hiroshima, LeMay even dropped a special leaflet over many Japanese cities, informing the Japanese people of the destruction of Hiroshima, and the destructive power of the atomic bomb, and threatened its use again.

Auction archive: Lot number 75
Auction:
Datum:
29 Jan 2021
Auction house:
Bonhams London
New York
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