European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 28, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                R Shim a the two White japanese plump against a Brilliant noon floated smoothly Over the glaring Coral made sure of the two White crosses daubed and then moved out and banked for a on the outer Side of each flew an american b15 medium it was As if the two Jap planes were locked in the arms of escorting Flung around the Field was a thin ring of Ameri can soldiers with rifles at fixed Bayonet and behind that ring another and massive Circle of troops who had piled one above the other on the heaps of starchy Coral until they were like packed bleacher fans at a Ball on the Field itself stood two giant g54 the presence of the White Jap ships and the Silver c54s was according to for a week the japanese had beamed Lon distance and involved surrender talk at the Douglas supreme Allied ordered them to Send to Manila a delegation capable of talking cold and his orders were the japs were told to Fly in a White plane marked with Green crosses from Japan to be the tiny Island where Ernie Pyle a dozen Miles Northeast of Here they would Transfer to an american plane for the balance of the except for a 48hour granted delay and the use of two planes instead of instructions had been complied a Squadron of american p38 fighters picked up the unarmed Jap ships at the lower tip of Southern Isle of the Jap at 1000 hours Okinawa they escorted them until relieved by a second squad which in turn gave Way to a when the planes were about 120 Miles from be a Marine air warning group picked them up on its radar and plotted them the Jap planes were two engined Bett bomb Good the Marine outfit had sweated out a Good Many hotties in its after More than a week during which american civilians at Home and soldiers in Gar Rison and in the Field had broken Loose in wild Here in the blazing sky Over Chalky Bataan As they swept past it could be seen that the White paint had been applied despite four Days Advance it was streaked and to the very end the japs had managed to do things when Bataan one taxied the Copilot was standing up holding the Blister window open with his raised hand while with the other he pounded on the planes nose to guide the Pilot in the course directed by the follow me then he climbed Down and lowered the Blister and half dozen members of the Crew sat staring Down at the Small crowd of cameramen and Cor respondents and maps and and at the greater ring of troops around the the flyers wore goggles and leather helmets with rabbi tour ear flaps turned their Walnut col ored togs looked very thick and behind the panelled Blister they somehow looked after a moment one got he was straight out of a Hollywood class the opening was about the size of a one of the crosses had been painted Over the door and a splotch of dark Green paint remained below and on either Side where the Cross had extended Over the for a Little while nothing happened and then a thin for a Jap and doubled awkwardly because of the smallness of the he was dressed in a sports Light shorts and White stockings which reached almost to his he wore spectacles but no and his thin face was decorated with a Small it developed later that this was Morio co Secretary of the foreign office and one of the two civilians in the then through that Hole and the Hole of Bataan which had taxied up poured a Stream of peaked hats and Horn rimmed spectacles and Gold braid and Samurai swords and knee High boots with from their bleachers behind their fixed Bayo the american troops still watched conscious of their presence at an historic understanding its yet experiencing the veterans ancient difficulty in believing that events will Ever fall so properly into place As to get him the interpreters rounded up the altogether there were 16 of them in a Motley of army and Navy uniforms and civilian on the in the air and on the Jap surrender envoys made their Way to various Allied Headquarters to arrange for the official surrender which would pave the Way for occupation forces to take Over the Home islands of Likely they were without much to adopt the Western code of military dignity despite under the plane Wing they lined up in Short and the in their dark Monkey suits and Tan ran Over and gathered behind at the right of the formation stood his brackish Barren of Mustache or turned a Little to the right and his eyes cast resolutely Twenty feet facing the Frederick Smith of the my fighter com an Early fighter Pilot in the delivered Brief he told the delegation that it would proceed to Manila and he offered to put up the flyers on Leas his words were inter Kawabe snapped his head affirmatively without raising his when the forma Tion broke the japanese formed a queue for the climb into one of the they climbed the ladder because of dignity and their swords and their and entered the huge door standing the plane was what airmen Call a Plush it had curtains at the windows and the double rows of seats on either Side of the aisle were of the Type found in ultramodern railway the japanese would have an Opportunity of stretching out and relaxing during the final leg of the Jour Ney to Down below the japanese Crew members had pulled their gear out of the two bet ties and were loading it and themselves into jeeps and recon by now the photographers had broken the my inner lines and they surged about the in a moment the c54 and the Roar of its four powerful engines warming up added to the then the big plane turned ponderously and made its run and pulled itself up and swung across toward if the looked out of the they would see on the Fields below them More air planes than they had Ever seen in one place in their All this time the soldiers in the Coral bleachers had watched the strange Panorama motionless and in now their attention was attracted by something More Small air Force tractors began to drag the two Jap betties into a dispersal Here was something a Man could get his Teeth the gleam of the determined souvenir Hunter came into the eyes of the which surged the my lines strained and for a moment the struggle was the maps bellowed and heaved and finally they got the upper probably just As one i As a ring of steel was quickly drawn around the maybe there the Only two planes the japs have left Dale Kramer yank staff correspondent be was the first tangible substance of the troops on their Coral bleachers shaded their eyes and stared except for the Bare movement of eyes following the they were motionless and three times the White betties passed Over the making waiting for the proper or perhaps hesitating at the final on each plane were painted five under either one on either and the fifth on the upper Tail from the ground the crosses appeared Black rather than on the fourth approach the ships came in Low for a the Call signal of the first plane since its departure from Japan had been Bataan of the Sec the braid of Tor Shiro head of the delegation and  of the Imperial general cascaded from his shoulders in a Golden he wore High boots and and his carved Samurai sword swept the others had their share of Fine but now in the hot after cramped hours in a they were without nothing in the Jap warriors code of Bushido covers an event of this kind and the representatives of japans shattered dream seemed confused and As they straggled across the chipped White Coral to the Sha Denof the enormous Wing of one of the c54s they did not and some observers thought them scowling and surly More the did an about face away from the Jap colonels and Plain civilians who had been brought to Nichols Field to arrange for the sign ing of the surrender in that Way the maps didst have to Salute the Jap there were a few cries of from the crowd of sailors and Fili pinos who had gathered to watch the Jap somebody hollered wheres Tojo the suitcase carried by one of the japs Drew Page 2