Blood on Four Flags [historic media map, Java, Indonesia, 1945]
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davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/d…  shared #DavidRumseyMapCollection scanned map
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“A 1945 Time magazine map by R.M. Chapin Jr turns geopolitics into graphic storytelling. “Blood on Four Flags” shows the Netherlands East Indies as a prize fought over by Dutch, Japanese, British and US interests. Red ink equals blood, islands equal resources, and nationalism..”
~ @SimonKuestenmacher
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