Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 16, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                Maftey n classic i psst my f left Vav of 5ji 1 tx1 hip pose for a they Wii warty Barney Markjr second and Carl Ial the my Nagoya and Japan ifs largest the air in thi far East t More the largest number Ever sent  targets in Tokyo saturday and dropped the largest bomb Load i s beware Arabia Gils molding j p i by Ernie Gartner Donald Farquar commanding officer of aah base appointed Connie la Salle in charge of sports he Little knew that the lieutenant would bring Fame to that Salle was of alone in his he As a stance nearly every softball enthusiast Down practically it View department was represented in the including mess Bil pilots and last but not a Ca Nadian the second half of the season started 16 after maintenance Yoh the first after seven weeks of scheduled mess Billet nor emerged the second half both winners were in so Good no one would give you Odds for the world series the big event took place at Little Adens own Ball the Bir Fadel there was plenty of Sun and plenty of the Hills of Sand were levelled Down by the gis heavy dirt and Gypsum were used to Harden the nothing could be done about the the first of the five game series wag won by so was the so was the third it was Over so fast no one knew exactly what happened except that there were two Hardt beat teams battling for the softball Champion colourful opening Day opening Day of the series was borrowed from the Camp were brought out to the the red Cross donated ice cold lemonade and a i volunteered to serve the refreshments in good1 old be bets Field just in Case there might be any Dodge Yankee the lemonade was served in paper the third Day saw maintenance become the softball champs of of another contest should prove it was a swell Many of the gis acclaimed that it was a Lough game to play in Adens so the boys of this aah base unit Are now participating in a More gentle game baseball la Salle claims that this will wind up world for police suspect publicity Gog i crucifixion Chicago a 43yearold tavern identified As Fred Wal was found nailed to a Cross of two Besix planks beneath an elevated railway Chicago Northside last when Wal Scher was a Crown of a minor wound had been inflicted inv his he was immediately taken to a Hospital and treated for exposure and physicians said that he was not seriously tendency nails had been driven through the mans outstretched Palms but the weight of his Booty had been supported by which were tied about Bis feet and at the head of the rude a sign proclaimed that to had been chosen As a investigation into the 20th Century crucifixion revealed that a native was a proponent of a group known As the Universal he had been on several Occa suggesting that a crucifixion was needed to publicize the new world Utopia plan of the brother police first believed that Wal had been an unwitting Vic Tim of his own later Point to the theory that Walschek planned his own crucifixion purely As a publicity officials say they will give a lie Detector test to him to Settle their the recuperating victim maintains that he was seized by three unknown assail ants nailed to the basketball league standings my 1 my 2 moderne c 7 6 4 4 0 1 3 3 l 4 3 2 1 0 Jocame ext Adey officers signal leading scorers 75 my 74 59 and my games this week moderne sit Fiu Jicome officers my Square Miles of War factories and other buildings extending to the Edge of the Imperial Palace grounds soldered in flaming ruins after the terrific Tokyo fires still Burner a b29 Force described As comparable in size to that struck the japanese capital ranged Over the Industrial City of japans greatest War they unloaded of incendiary bombs from Only a Alti returning pilots said a five Square mile area was converted into an one plane was lost an the fires were still burning 10 hours after the Tokyo japans second largest with a population of was brought under Aerial attack for the first time tuesday when 300 b29s from Tinian and Saipan dropped approximately tons of fire bombs in an As Sault similar to the other results were not immediately known but most of Osaka is com posed of Flimsy wooden buildings and it was believed Likely that damage was severe in the great rail Center and 245 Miles West and Southwest of Osaka is said to contain yanks land continued from Page 1 up and suffocated in caves and the enemy had planned Tif exact a fearful Tail of yanks making a frontal assault but their plan was foiled by the systematic attack which doomed the Jane to die without taking a compensating at artillery and plane at tacks drove the japs into the Depths of the caves and they were kept there by flame throwers and White phosphorous hand this demolition squads planted explosives which sealed off the american forces in Northern Luzon have now reached a Point with in five Miles of Tokyo radio quoted Tomoyuki Yama Jap commander of As rating despite the ame rican capture of Manila and the splitting of his forces on Luzon into four his plan to annihilate yank forces is proceeding according to his original Yamashita was said to be exasperated at Home front doubts con Kerning his attack an unexpected face turned up in one of the american prison Camps this week with the capture of Emilio 70yearold filipino insurrection St who led two uprisings against Spain and the at the turn of Tho Cen he had been one of Jap puppet it has been revealed that Verne command ing the 1st cavalry was wounded seriously in the Abdomen by a grenade thrown by a Jap Soldier who had been left for physicians said the general would m69 incendiary contains celled Gas san Francisco commanding officer of the chemical warfare procurement said incendiaries used in the huge Tokyo raid and probably on the other two were the new m69 Type containing jelled they Are lotion bombs in aimable clusters weighing 500 these clusters open at distributing individual six Pound each six Pounder throws flaming gasoline a radius of 30 45 mar mar mar c1 19 officers c i a Tadey Mij moderne s Jilaine heres a new wrinkle that the folks Back Home have come up with during the cig Aret shortage that we thought wed pass on to they snip off the burned ends of three place the stubs end to end in a gummed and Roll until firm and fully result a slightly secondhand Bur nonetheless Welcome a pack of 20 will yield nine additional Cigar ets plus an extra the smoker salvages every butt and re salvages the Cigar Butr might be Worth a buy More War Bonds Only one american plane was re ported lost on the a report from Guam Eaid the three great raid brought the area of destruction in Japan to 24 Square larger than the area of Man Hattan Island and at a Cost of four b29s two Over Tokyo and one each Over Nagoya and ground Crews in the Marianas Laboured hours without sleep after the Nagoya raid to get the planes at Sai pan ground Crews worked Man hours to deliver 000 Gallons of gasoline and quarts of Oil planes going to b the fires in Tokyo raged 34 hours after the incendiary raid and an american photographic reconnaissance Pilot reported that huge Black splotches covered the Center of the japanese soot blackened som Ebay doors mid the fuselage of returning a correspondent who flew with the raiders i not Only saw Tokyo burning furiously hut i smelled said Martin Sheridan of the Boston forty Miles from the Sheridan said the Crew of his bomber could see the Reddish glow of fires started by earlier he said he had never seen such a display of 50 times More damage Thomas Power said raid caused 50 times More damage that the record 25 attack that devastated 240 City blocks in to commenting on Tho raids Curtis commander of the bomber said lie contemplated the total destruction of War in Laurie chief of staff of the 20th aah added that fleets of a thousand super forts will be put Over the japanese Home land if at the end of the devastating the japanese were taking of the destruction Premier in a speech to the japanese diet As quoted by Tokyo admitted the american raids had assumed serious proper and a Tokyo broadcast for Jap anese consumption complained that tt29 attacks were mostly at to hit us when we Are most we must to most careful after we go to it flying will carry 25ton Load Ohio the b19 described by air technical service command As the worlds largest air plane is now renamed the huge flying is the role of in Experiment Al ship and will haul payloads of possibly f tons can be hauled in the Shin directly to combat built four years by Douglas the plane Lias been used As a Hying Laboratory by ats in testing virtually Type t equip me in military air chief of the Atsus engineering division experiments with this ship have considerably accelerated our program f Long Range heavy the plane has a Wing spread and the wheels Are s in horse Power Roine from 5 Allison