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WW2 Pictorial coloured Japanese military stationary card showing a Buffalo on the hillside scavenging for food to Kiso Shizu, Aoki, Shirahama – cho, Awa-gun, Chiba-Ken, Japan from Nakayama Mamoru, U248 Minami Tori- Shima Guard Unit, U28 Minami Tori Shima, c/o Yokosuka P.O., Japan with printed orange framed Ken’etsuzumi (Censored) overlaid with violet framed handstamp reading U248 Asasawa Censored with orange circular unidentified chop of censoring officer inserted…..A rare card indeed, Minami-Tori-shima (南鳥島, “Southern Bird Island”), also known as Marcus Island, is an isolated Japanese triangular shaped coral atoll in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. Though very small (around 300 acres) and without a civilian population but with a duel runway airfield. It is of strategic importance to Japan, as it enables them to claim a 165,589.6 square mile Exclusive Economic Zone in the surrounding waters. It is also the easternmost territory of Tokyo, being administratively part of Ogasawara village. It is 1,148 miles southeast of Tokyo. It is nearly in a straight line between mainland Tokyo and the American Wake Island, which is 880 miles east of Marcus Island………………..

See: https://pacificairlifter.com/the-marcus-island-run/a-little-history-on-marcus-island/