WWII Imperial Japanese Newspaper April 1942 Doolittle Raid Bataan 26 Issues For Sale

DescriptionThis is a group of 26 original Tokyo Asahi Shimbun newspapers from April 1942, published during the opening months of the Pacific War.Four dates are missing, and the group contains a mixture of combined morning/evening editions and daily editions. Each issue consists of four pages. Some newspapers have tears, edge loss, staining, toning, folds, and areas of missing text.April 1942 was an exceptionally important month in the Pacific War. Contemporary Asahi summaries for that month include the Bataan campaign, operations in the Indian Ocean, fighting in New Guinea, the first enemy air raid on the Japanese home islands, and the wartime general election. One of the most historically significant events represented here is the Doolittle Raid of April 18, 1942.On that day, 16 U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 bombers launched from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet and attacked targets in Tokyo, Yokosuka, Yokohama, Kobe, and Nagoya. It was the first U.S. air raid on the Japanese home islands. The Japanese newspaper coverage includes headlines such as:“Enemy Aircraft Make Their First Raid on the Imperial Capital”
“Nine Enemy Aircraft Shot Down, Our Damage Slight”These headlines are especially interesting because they preserve how the attack was presented to Japanese readers at the time.The newspapers also cover subjects including:Bataan and the Philippines
Japanese naval and air operations
The Indian Ocean campaign
New Guinea and Southeast Asia
Military casualties and memorial reporting
Civil defense and wartime life in JapanThis is not a later history book or reproduction.These are original wartime newspapers printed and read in Japan in April 1942, preserving the language, photographs, headlines, advertisements, and official wartime reporting exactly as contemporary readers encountered them.For collectors and researchers, the value lies not only in individual headlines, but in being able to follow almost an entire month of the war through the Japanese home-front press.Please note that this is not a complete month. Four dates are missing, and condition varies from issue to issue. Please examine the photographs carefully.A substantial primary-source archive for collectors of Imperial Japan, Doolittle Raid history, Pacific War newspapers, Bataan, Japanese home-front propaganda, and WWII ephemera.Own a Piece of History.Shipping

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