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The original version of this bombing map of New York was first published by German scientists Eugen Sänger and Irene Bredt-Sänger in Über einen Raketenantrieb für Fernbomber, a German Research Institute for Aviation Secret Command Report, UM 3538 in 1944.
Original caption on verso of this print: New York's map drawn up by World War II German Luftwaffe planners in 1944. Powerful V2 rockets to be launched from German submarines were aimed at Mid-Manhattan. Judging from the circles of effect drawn on the map, such rockets should have been armed by atomic warheads. This is assumed to be the "new, final, secret weapon" the Nazis worked on and promised to Hitler up to the last days.
From: Photos used in the 1984 Truman Centennial Exhibit. This print was obtained from G.D. Hackett, who claims the copyright to this image.