European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 16, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stabs and stripes loft Ewar s Japan 1941 7japanese attack fear on the same Day East Longitude time they hit the Malaya and hong1 Kong and invade left l and great Britain declare War on japanese attack i take move into Malaya Kong Falls to Japa occupy Manila and Cavite naval april ends on Luzon Bataan april b2s bombers raid Yokohama and Nagoya to first assault on japans Home april Burma Road Falls to Ray land in Madagascar 5vtp foil submarine opera May Falls Organ philippine Campaign june of Midway first decisive defeat of Jap marines land on Guadalcanal and Tula i in major Allied offensive of the 1943 japanese re Over at new forces completely enemy losses april drive japanese Yunnan province into Bur at greatest conc ests reached their High water Mark to mid resistance ended at each when Allied May Jane land new Georgia islands Massau new 1 and Canadian of Pearl Harbor invade 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fanatical All Jap resistance in Manila March Falls Burma Road cleared from Lashio to March Jima March capture Man april 10day bombard ment by Fleet 10th army invades april denounces neutrality pact with Japa As Koiso Cabinet Falls to be replaced by one headed by May and Indian forces Complete occupation of May Deva state Tokyo with fire May Cut japans lifeline from North China indo China and june land on Brunei after 82 Days of bitter july in Philippines july thousand Carrier planes Pound Only third Fleet shells Aromas close As three Miles off atomic bomb drop Ped on almost annihilating declares War on Japan and starts attacking Man from two sue for death March of Baxuan Japan its by stall correspondent in offering surrender under the terms of the Potsdam Japan exposes a Long roster of War criminals Justice to be out by Allied even aside from recent acceptance by the United nations of the Tenet that perpetrators of military aggression Are War Crim the roster of japanese is lengthy and most powerful a american memory is the death March from a which thousands of the defenders of Corregidor were shot and crushed by picks or died of thirst and fever in blazing philippine Sun As they marched to thousands died la prison Camps in the Malaya and american and British prisoners have died by the thous ands from starvation and i of the or More prisoners of War known to be in japanese Captivity in the Early Days of the Pacific the number of survivors is not Best estimates do not exceed half the original the Sape of banking will Long remain in chinese minds As the Symbol of japanese sadism and probably will be remembered by the rest of the world As the largest scale atrocity in modern military entering its in the Early Days of Chint japanese soldiers were encouraged by their officers in wholesale murder and tooting the British remain Ful of the suffering of More than prisoners of War in the Scriber Ridden Starvatow Camps of Burma and Jap planes sneak raid 1 i began War Early 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