The Snapshots in Time Collection

WWII Silk Escape Map Detail - Okinawa and Ryukyu Islands with Ocean Current and Magnetic Variation Data

WWII Silk Escape Map Detail - Okinawa and Ryukyu Islands with Ocean Current and Magnetic Variation Data

This silk map section centers on Okinawa and the Ryukyu Islands - the very region where the 345th Bombardment Group was based on Ie Shima in 1945. Overlaid current, wind, and magnetic-variation data helped aircrew plot survival routes through waters that had just months earlier seen one of the war's fiercest campaigns. Project: 218404