[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
German Invasion of Russia – Operations, 22 June-25 August 1941
The Mediterranean Basin
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – The Imperial Powers, 1 September 1939

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Gordon W. Prange, At Dawn We Slept

[PeterPrinciple]

Vast Silk Market Closed

It means an end to Japan's great silk market in the United States unless Japan would be will to to ship this important product into an area where payments would be subjects to rigid licensing by an unfriendly government.

So far as silk is concerned, the United States suffers, but it is well known in Washington that the Army and Navy have been planning to use substitutes for silks, as in parachutes, wherever possible. This substitution's extent will be governed by the amount of stocks of silk that have been bought in anticipation of the new program.

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So the real purchaser of the $2,500,000 of silk was probably the military. Wheels within wheels.

[Larry381]

Whoops, I notice I posted one of my replies with photos to yesterday’s thread. Sorry about that-I’ll repost it again to today’s forum. Again, my apologies.