The 653rd Engineer Topographic Battalion was a mapmaking arm of the United States Air Force, stationed in India. The battalion produced maps for a host of military situations, including the major U.S.A.F. activities in and around China. The battalion also produced "walk-out maps" for the Office of Strategic Service. One of the first Japanese targets for the XXth Bomber Command's B-29 raids from China was Nagasaki, a center of Japanese munitions production. The target chart for that raid was reproduced by the 653d in September 1944.
RESTRICTED - U.S. Military Mapping of China During the Final Stages of the Second World War. Color-printed separately issued map of China, part of the "Asia Transportation Map" Restricted series. This is the "Theater Edition" (i.e., for use in China)...
