Carey's World War Atlas is a 36-page geographical reference booklet produced in the United States shortly after the nation's entry into the Second World War. Created by the Geographical Publishing Company of Chicago and copyrighted in 1942, this particular edition was published expressly for promotional distribution by The Carey Salt Company of Hutchinson, Kansas.
The booklet opens with a portrait and tribute to General Douglas MacArthur following his command transfer to Australia, alongside a statistical index detailing global political divisions, capitals, and populations. Designed to help civilians comprehend wartime news, it includes an extensive glossary of military terminology and slang—covering terms such as 'ack-ack', 'blitzkrieg', 'Free French', 'Jeep', and 'Molotov cocktail'—as well as a foreign place-name pronunciation guide for global combat zones.
In addition to detailed regional and Mercator projection maps spanning Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific Ocean, the atlas provides illustrated guides to U.S. Army, Navy, Coast Guard, and Marine Corps assets. It features photographs of military aircraft, outlines official U.S. Navy ship-naming policies, details rank and specialty insignia, and concludes with the complete text of the 1941 Atlantic Charter declaration agreed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill.