Jap threat stresses west defense. Harris Parlane. The Star Weekly, Toronto, January 3, 1942.

• Main Author: Star Weekly
• Format: Map
• Language: unknown
• Published: Star Weekly 1942
• Subjects: World War II; Pictorial map; Canada; Barrow; Point Barrow; Alaska
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Color pictorial map, on sheet 38x28, by Harris Parlane. Published in page 24, January 3, 1942 issue of Star Weekly Canadian newspaper. Emphasizing the importance of transportation routes through Alaska to the defense of the west coast of North America. Covers West coast of the United States from San Francisco to Point Barrow, Alaska. Showing strategically important cities and towns, present and proposed highways, Naval bases, airports, boat routes, etc. Includes text at the bottom panel: "Brought into sharp focus by the outbreak of war with Japan is the U.S.- Alaska highway, first mooted as a tourist road ." See note field above.