Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 13, 1945, Cairo, Egypt April spam af0 Okinawa la slow round Guam the tenth army has overrun Suken islet off Okinawa big a Amagusuku Harbor while the japanese on the main Island in repeated counterattacks suffered heavy losses and Are giving ground slowly in the heaviest artillery Duel of the Pacific Twenty fourth corps troops who landed on ten Miles off Okinawa East killed the entire Garrison of 150 yanks fighting in the rain and mud on gained up to Yards tuesday in the North but were stalemated in the rugged Southern sector for the sixth Day amid the fierce artillery japanese artillery is stronger and More accurate than any offered yet in the with heavier guns than used heretofore defend ing positions North of wounded marines and soldiers said the Leyte Campaign was kids play compared to what we started hitting two Days ago on yanks gained a foothold for the second time in three Days on a Ridge near Kakazu in Southern Okinawa where the japanese Are making their strongest the charging with fixed had previously driven the americans off the marines in the North smashed two counterattacks on the Motobu remarkably Low american casualties were reported for the first four Days of fighting but the Jap anese have started putting in in resistance among fixed positions in gullies and the japs remain in caves until the americans pass and then emerge at night to strike the yanks from the dispatches battleships and cruisers turned their Leavy guns on japanese artillery destroying a number of gun nips make Down payment Washington Japan has paid Hoa Yily for attacking the she Haf Jost men ships sunk and 12 Island groups bypassed or the lost islands Are the few new mar Phi two Jima and 400 super forts rip 2 Jap cities b20 super fortresses were again Over Tokyo in very great the said they flew from the Marianna by Day Light and were escorted by Long Range Mustangs from iwo Guam about 400 fighters sorted super forts raided Tokyo and Nagoya saturday in the greatest land based raid Ever made on Japan and the first involving land based fighter the Murashima and Mitsubishi aircraft engine plants on Honshu were hit in the mighty made from bases on iwo the super forts and escorting Mustang fighters destroyed or damaged 173 japanese planes Dur ing the attacks As enemy interceptors made about 600 separate attacks on the b29s Over their again super forts and in substantial returned to this time Hitt incr Kano a at the southernmost tip of the enemy Home Island but no further details were patrons Soninlaw freed Washington John f Soninlaw of Pat was liberated from a pow can North of he was captured by the germans during the North african Lily and Kosty Back new York Liiv Pons the famed metropolitan and her Andre or Chestra have returned to the states after a four months Uso tour of the Burma and India Mitscher fliers sink giant 5 other ships Guam six japanese warships t per cent of the remaining japanese were sunk in a today Battle foe tween american Ana japanese fleets in the Vicinity of Nimitz announced the enemy warships sunk included japans largest remaining the one of the most powerful in the 900 feet Long and with 16 Inch americans shot Down 391 attack ing japanese besides the the japanese lost a Light a smaller Cruiser and three losses were three destroyers and seven this was the Long hoped for Battle when the reluctant japanese Fleet at lust came out to face the third Fleet which had been cruising for weeks in the Ryukyu islands Southwest of the enemy Fleet was discovered by scouting Navy planes As it moved out from the Inland sea where it was heavily raked last month by Mitscher fast Carrier on the first night of the 116 japanese planes were shot 55 of them by fighters and the rest by antiaircraft they Sank three destroyers damaged several other i rovers and smaller japs lost 25 per gent american Carrier aircraft counterattacked the anti two Light cruisers and three destroyers were sunk As yank pilots roared through anti aircraft fire encountering no de fending die Yamato was sunk in fight Tor Pedus and eight born Kiln an official naval spokesman said that u Ood x5 major combat Force was lost or put out of action in the naval air the new losses leave the Japan Ese with a task Force that can be handled very easily by any of our major task he the naval official was presumably an offensive action since it was made up entirely of fast the possibility re that it was me Rev an Effort to escape to More tenable Yamato was the fifth Jap anese battleship definitely reported sunk in the the latest blow brought to 85 the total of japanese warships sunk or damaged in three sea air actions in the last ten the a said apparently Japan till has five older afloat or in shipyards undergoing has ringside seat at Yamato sinking Okinawa a Navy Pilot parachuted from a burning plane into the Middle of a doomed japanese task Force of Kyushu saturday and watched from the water four hours while the japanese tried unsuccessfully to save the battleship William Delaney of Detroit was rescued later by a patrol 1omber while a Airship Cir cled the area diverting enemy Delaney said he scored four direct hits on the battleship with bombs from feet and the re Hudi Kutis Kimmur boy Ushica Okinawa tenth army Forward in the re trance stiffer in Hie Southern troops of the 24th corps Cave landed on Suken and killed the entire Jap Garrison of Iso quicker Pacific vday seen in ending of Russ Jap pact Rusi this is undoubtedly a preview Sias denunciation of her Neutral Ity pact with military observers and congressmen agree that the action would shorten the Pacific War even if the soviet Union does not eventually join the it is pointed out that Japan must at least prepare to fight rus Sia and possibly divert even if Russia no both Russia have Long maintained formidable forces along the Frontier Between Jap held Manchuria and russian maritime on Capitol Hill reactions to the pact were of chairman Senate Mill tary this certainly must mean the eventual entry of Russia into the War with Vandenburg of Michigan go saves Span at Cost of two digits with the ninth army Quick action by a 30th ser Geant permitted part of the ninth n army to Cross the Leine River in the tank sergeant noticed a Wisp of smoke from the pier approach of one of the Leine Bridges South of he rushed Tore out the burning fuse with his Bare it was attached to of explosive and the fuse burned s6 near the charge that the detonating Cap blowing off his two the action permitted a combat command to Cross the forcing a general German withdrawal to the g explosions on set his dive of vitally important things to democratic Leader Barkley Austin of ver significant step toward Vic Johnson of name of the sergeant was not Admiral gets Jap hot seat san Francisco the Jap radio announced that a new Ca Binet has been formed by Kantaro with himself As minister and greater East Asia minister As Well As the new War minister will be Kore Chika director general of army Mitsumasa Yanoi retained his Navy the Cabinet succeeds that of Kuniski Koiso which had designed in order to bring a More Power Ful Cabinet into what been waiting continuance impossible a week radio Moscow announced that foreign commissar Molotov had informed the eee ambassador that continuance of the neutrality pact was impossible since Japan was fighting against russian the United states and great in such a the announcement the pact of neutrality has become impose the pact was to have run until april if both parties stick to the letter of the they must maintain neutrality until that when the five year agree ment the denouncement becomes effective april just 12 Days before the Frisco chinese Check Jap drive on capital chunking this week announced that chinese forces had Cut off japanese troops in their drive for Shenski threatening the Northern approaches of the Chi Nese one chinese dispatch claimed the japanese 15th army Hail been decisively Defeated and that fighting in the Honan and Supeh provinces had stopped an Advance on lenses 14th British army drove East from captured thai in an Effort to Cut off japanese troops attempting to escape into thai land from Central Burma and also pushed Down the rail line from captured Mandalay to escaped Bandit killed new York William one the notorious trolley ban dits who terrorized Philadelphia a few years has been killed by police in a gun was one of 12 who escaped an Eastern Penitentiary last Slayer believed insane Little James the 24yearold taxi Driver who confessed to slaying his Gacond wife arid five other per has been committed to the state Hospital for the youth told police that he killed the five persons while on hitchhiking tace land the c heaviest Eek was Beni Jef Biete in where described the a second has been blasting 83 the Gateway to the caravan with the capture of the Tawni of Tayabas and the Conquest of Southern Mindanao has been virtually completed and of crack enemy troops Hong Kong blasted two More philippine islands were liberated during the lightning strokes from Macarthy frs amphibious a toe Force quickly overran the Gugar Rich Little Island of in the Cen trial while another landed on culion in the West Central liberating thou Sands of ill fed the yanks Are continuing the systematic destruction of enemy positions on Cebu we file elements of the 40th dial Vance 30 Nules on Negros Island a capturing two v r striking at Hong Cong the third consecutive a Force of 50 philippine based heavy bomb with fighter delivered the heaviest blow of the War at this enemy bastion when they cascaded 168 tons of bombs on the Harbor and nine Jap ships were including a Des a second destroyer was sent to the Bottom when a vhf liberators a i ship con Voy off the South China other bombers blasted Formosa Many parked yes its stil All v or of after be Washington with final Vic tory in Europe in the Over seas servicemen Are wondering How they stack up on discharge which will determine prior Ity of release following Germany Here is a Roundup of the current according associated the army is adhering to Ita policy of waiting until vie Day to determine the value of Point Cre dits upon which soldiers will be the finally determine de total Point score will be wed in selecting personnel to be declared surplus after vib the originally announced four factors for determining the prior Ity of combat and parenthood still service credit will be granted on a total number of months of ser vice since 1940 overseas upon number of months no guarantee the Mere Possession of sufficient credits does not Guaran tee a soldiers other factors must be certain types of Cour can be declared surplus until Japan is the army for has said that service troops will be needed in the very first phases of redeployment to prepare bases in the the air forces have stated that perhaps of air and ground Crews will be hurried to the Paci fic after be British casualties armed forces suffered including up to 1cksl Vinson sworn in Washington Fred Van Soji has been sworn in As War mobilization chief and director of
