Japanese map of the Coral Sea, 1942

Japanese map of the Coral Sea, 1942. Japanese title is ‘New Guinea to Townsville’. Produced by the Japanese Department of Waterways in May 1942, this map presents intelligence data related to airports, navigation beacons, signal points and broadcasting stations in Queensland. A map in this series (and showing all of Queensland) was found in Borneo in July 1945 by Lt-Col A.L. Rose of the 1^st Australian Combined Operations Section. It was displayed at the Royal United Services Institute Hall, Victoria Barracks, Brisbane in 2010. Collection of the Queensland State Archives