WORLD WAR TWO.- AMERICAN PROPAGANDA LEAFLETS AIMED AT JAPAN

Majority with US stamps and/or USS Marvin H. McIntyre ink stamps, including:

‘These American bombers above your heads are very advanced and powerful’, surrender pass depicting a burning Japanese soldier, unstamped;

‘The purpose of dropping this leaflet is to let you know that your city has been selected as the next target for the US Air Force. It will start within 3 days of posting this flyer [...] Now is the time to defeat this curse and the military. This is the only way to save Japan.’, with 23 duplicates;

‘The top military officials finally hid the repeated crushing defeats and turned the people’s homes into defensive grounds’, with 28 duplicates;

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***“Artwork on the leaflets was done by artists familiar with the Japanese people and their ways and customs. It was considered essential that the artist be extremely accurate in regard to details of Japanese customs.” - Classified military report booklet, Progress of the War in the Middle Pacific (1945)