Strasbourg Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 2, 1944, Strasbourg, Alsace                              Eric Johnson important men on to american Johnston was elected to his present Post at the Fifie of the youngest Man Ever named to the now stated to serve a third lie is Only the fourth president to receive thai marshalls son Dies the War announced the death in action in Italy of Allen Tup per son of George wife of the army chief of lie was killed in a Fink Battle near former jobs will be open War vets with the and stripes at officers and men of us anime paid memorial Day tribute to the dead in american military cemetery near at the foot of each grave stood either a Soldier or a red Roii worker who placed wreaths on each of the Graves and stood at attention for in hit after by threes army Benjamin us anime commanding Laid we Are gathered Here americans in a foreign to pay tribute to our Soldier comrades who have Vert their lives for the cause of Freedom and for them the fight is but the cause for which they died will live similar Cere monies were Field a other american cemeteries in the Middle pro photo by Middle East gis lauded by conc prexy Eric the Youthful president of the chamber of recently arrived in Cairo for a Brief stay before continuing on to Russia where he will explore Russia american postwar Trade possibilities at the personal invitation of Stalin and the rus Sian in a press conference in the engaging and Liberal minded representative of the american business Man said i wish every american father and Mother who has a son stationed Here in the East could see How smoothly our american Are getting along with the native Peoples and our out Here among the aspiring masses of these ancient american boys a great backlog of future Goodwill toward the new our institutions and pro these Peoples Are Seeno Many manufactured for the first they Admire item of equipment our army from its Candy bars to its speaking chiefly of John Ston the Egypt will have the Money to buy the heavy machinery and hire Terri Nicias with the since part of this Money might be the dollars which the american army is now spending Here for kor Antian goods find ifs Only reasonable to assume thai America will get her share of these Post War orders for heavy because i Egypt has cached our fighting forces at close she Bias formed her own opinion of the Basic honesty and friendliness of the american Soldier and the Dur ability of his fast becoming one of the most Washington in the first real modification of soldiers guarantees under the National service selective services has issued a memorandum to local boards which Are assigned to handle veterans Job it is stipulated that employers Are required to restore to veterans their old jobs with old pay and1 their in the has accumulated just As if they were on their old jobs during the veterans Are entitled to re instatement even though it necessitates the discharge of a nonet with greater while the Veteran May not 1e discharged without cause within one year after his return to the if his reinstatement to the Job is improperly Dei aved after be leaves the regulations say that the Veteran through court recover his Back pay that accrued while his reinstate in Tel was delayed by the there is one that the Veteran must do for his old Job Whin 40 Days Ater discharge from the armed and if his old Boss feels hat he can no longer handle be the exse Viceman is entitled to a Chance to prove that he seeing eyes for vets Washington the signed a thus making it a which will drive blinded sol Diers an sailors and marines seeing Eye dogs As life companions without Hie Bill appropriates a million the fifth army has pierced the Velletri Valmonte cat German defense Belt before enemy resistance was unexpectedly the thrust leaves Velletri and its tenth Ger Man army troops three quarters in the fortified Alban Hills the yanks pushed Forward two Ikea Anil from this Vantage could see Rome glistening on the horizon As the germans fell Back to within 15 Miles of resistance stiffened in a ferocity both sides described a never known the spectacular Advance of 60miles in the first 14 Days of the present offensive became a fierce push measured again in unburied yanks and British As Well As Ger along the Dusty roads while German prisoners trudged to their cages and Allied troops crept Forward against rearguard sni the Battle Lino was jagged As a the fifth army drove in from Tho beachhead to take Gen Ono and threaten Genzano at the Alban Foothills on the Applan Highway number the eighth crossed the to straddle the Cas Linian Highway number in the mountains the French moved up Paral Lel to the line of Retreat up the the Al lied Campaign appeared designed to avoid the mountainous mate Cassino by As much As the Central Al ban attempts to out 10th army once the fifth army had joined its forces at the germans were surprised when the allies struck first at the Garigliano and Lapido sectors rather than from the extended saturday Tho Hitler line cracked and the i germans began rallying their for Ces around sunday the reached the outskirts of Velletri and the eighth crossed the Liri to capture Capra off the top right of the map next Day when the i yanks captured Artena in the Al ban Hills they were within sight of the eighth drove in on Highway 6 from several Points to Cut off the German tenth army in the Trunci in a memorial Day address at see Italy on Page 8 Day sets new record methodically proceeding in its scientific the air War this week continued from British and italian on monday launch ing the greatest Daylight bombing operation of the eight thou Sand planes were Active in Trie 24 hour on that Day the 12th and 15th Saaf and Tho widely scattered squadrons of the Raf coordinated the Gest task Force of heavy bomb ers and fighters spread ruin across plane plants at Poznan and Kreiling in to Cottbus and Sora in Germa bomber synthetic Oil plants near Over 400 escorted medium bombers of the 9th aah lashed France and while simultaneously 700 escorted by swarms of hit austrian plants from italian Raf night operations Luc Iwig shaken and anger in full opposition the Day Belory the heaviest ame rican attacks then sent Over Europe had coupled with the Raf for assaults against the these two Days culminated three straight 24hour periods of two Way assaults cover incr rail and Road lines from the Low lands to the Luftwaffe opposition was spas sundays action Over Ger Many was furious but the next Dav attackers were virtually in co Tohwa Fragati Marino Vai Wito