(3:36 min.) (09 of 28) 9. WWII in North Africa
George worked his way across North Africa. He describes air raids in Cairo, how Rommel was pushed back, how war was declared while he was on the ship to Africa. Bombers ferried across the...
1 map on 6 sheets; sheets from atlas with facing pages joined to make 3 sheets. Shows tracks of various voyages. Includes text, historical and geographical notes, and tables of comparative astronomical observations. Relief shown pictorially. ...
1 map on 6 sheets; sheets from atlas with facing pages joined to make 3 sheets. Shows tracks of various voyages. Includes text, historical and geographical notes, and tables of comparative astronomical observations. Relief shown pictorially. ...
1 map on 6 sheets; sheets from atlas with facing pages joined to make 3 sheets. Shows tracks of various voyages. Includes text, historical and geographical notes, and tables of comparative astronomical observations. Relief shown pictorially. ...
(4:15 min.) (06 of 28) 6. WWII Some of his friends went to Canada to fly with the Royal Air Force [RAF]; many of them did not come home. George went to Africa to build runways and supply aircraft. He was with Pan Am/World Airways (Pan Am...
Relief shown pictorially. Shows major routes of exploration. From Thomas Jefferys and others, The American atlas. Series: A chart of North and South America : including the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, with the nearest coasts of Europe, Africa and...
Relief shown pictorially. Shows major routes of exploration. From Thomas Jefferys and others, The American atlas. Series: A chart of North and South America : including the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, with the nearest coasts of Europe, Africa and...
(5:25 min.) (07 of 28) 7. Across the Atlantic Georgetown, French Guyana was the next stop, not Africa. The ship was zigzagging; the Captain and First Mate would open orders each day and set a new course. On board was a Pan Am navigator;...
(4:41 min.) (08 of 28) 8. Getting to Africa The ship shuddered, then listed and water came in the portholes. They had run into a submarine [u-boat]tender. The Santa Paula was eventually sunk by submarines.
Notes on Kankei Ibun (Voyages around the world)
Made with the assistance of Naoko Hoshino.
Vol. 0
Introduction
Table of contents with summary of each volume
List of illustrations
Vol. 1
Vessel Wakamiya-maru leaving Ishimaki, winter of...