24th May, 2023 11:00
Pointie Talkie in Chinese,
US Air Force phrasebook to be used by downed American airmen with phrases in Chinese, printed on silk, ink markings to flags on cover, c. 1942.
***"AGAS and the Office of War Information collaborated in publishing a "Pointie Talkie" booklet printed in China. The basic format was to show in the first column a question or a request in English, in the second column the same item in Chinese, in the third column one or more answers in Chinese, and in the fourth column the same answers in English. Thus an American could point to an item in the first column and his Chinese collaborator could point to the appropriate answer in the fourth column." Winborn, Byron. Wen Bon: A Naval Air Intelligence Office Behind Japanese Lines in China, Univ. of North Texas Press 1994, p. 132).
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