Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 27, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                April 945 in a the enemy that d been made Island end the Tokyo r the Plant in is aircraft Irmen m had blown the m to in the to Section of struck at Kyushu s for the second Pursi waiting five Jap reports indicated e were Tempo Between bombers hit scattered in continuing operations to airfields from which the enemy has been harassing the americans on it was the seventh b29 raid on Kyushu since March the super bombed visually and encountered Little Tot p51 Mustang fight ers based on iwo made their first1 attack in the capital area when they ripped through the big a Eugi 25 Miles South of Are invasion Tokyo Japan announced the biggest reshuffling of adminis Tractive since the out break of the War this greater Power was placed in the hands of local administrative authorities in event of an invasion of the Homeland and to increase War pro radio Tokyo that More than 125 administrative positions were slum diet helps Hun pow8 Idaho after a two Day of bread and 245 German prisoners of War returned to work in Southern Idaho potato Fields this forty others Are still fire outs Detroit armory Detroit a five alarm fire swept through the Detroit armory destroying Large stores of Small arms arid other equipment of the Michigan state in the first three Days of the Day drive marines also landed on Taka islet at the Entrance to Simrau Harbor on the West coast of Oki Nawa and Sesoko islet one mile off Motobu on the Wistern Taka was quickly of and of Sesoko overrun in the first few both islets Are about a Square mile Ifo also announced this week that 15 american ships of types lost in the Okinawa operations Between March 18 and april the japanese lost 100 vessels during the same including the battleship american naval losses included five a destroyer trans two a four Landing and two am munition the enemy lost another air base in China evacuated reinforced chinese open ing a counteroffensive along a 100mile front in Hunan Provin have checked the Jap drive in Central but not before an other american airbase had been destroyed and the one of the last Amer ican Fields in was located at and razed when the japs reached within 66 Miles of in Central British Indian infantry and armoured forces Are thrusting Forward at an average 4aily rate of 10 in their southward drive they have Cap tured 305 airline Miles from plugs g play setup Washington recreation facilities for enlisted men overseas equal to those furnished officers have been asked by senator Haw Kes Hawkes wrote the War and Navy departments that he had received complaints that officers get Supe rior he asked investigation and requested that when recreational facilities Are created for officers that the equivalent thereto be for the Benefit of enlisted the Reich capital before the Blitz came Home to Roost v ii a j acropolis to Hyde Park Hyde Park a Laurel Branch from the acropolis was this week on the grave of president Roosavelt As a tribute from the newspapermen of Washington Franklin Roosevelt has approved plans to create a memorial to the late a committee is now being this photo of Hie Center of taken before the Allied air and russian army bunched their renovation shows the m the foreground the Brandenburg Gate leading into the famous and under Den former of the French and american embassies Are also yanks poised for final Popup on North Luzon their fourth year of overseas men of 32nd division Are battling japs holed up in caves on Northern our men have consolidated their positions around the ruined philippine summer and Are prepared for the final southward by 750 the 24th division on Mindanao has Cut the enemy forces in half by taking the key Road Junction of Kablean and 32 air Miles Inland from their beachhead and 42 Miles from the Jao stronghold of virtual of Campaign the rapid Advance on Pipit was made possible by homemade gun Vertex shallow 65 lems equipped with captured Jap Small Cannon and rockets from wrecked the Jap troops on min most Are believed entrenched w the Davao earlier in the Mac announced the virtual end of the Central Philippines Campaign with the death of japs on Cebu the Only remaining organized resistance in the Philippines is in Mindanao at the South and upper Luzon in the our losses in this Campaign were extraordinarily he More than six million Fili pinos have been freed in the Square Miles of the Visayan is lands the general also commended the 40th and 41st divisions for their work in the Central Philip stating this is a Model of what a Light but aggressive com Mand can accomplish in rapid sex Macarthur continuing close support of the ground troops at either end of the philippine Sank or damaged an ton transport and four other vessels off Formosa and also wrecked a freighter off indo Clarks forces Span to River aim at Verona Bologna the fifth and eighth armies have swept North from the to River to within 30 Miles of be Gateway to the Brenner a Security blackout de the exact positions of the but some units have closed in on the Ligurian naval la Spe and capturing prisoners and much equipment the eighth reached 30 Miles South of and holds a fifty mile front along the of from there to where the germans made a stiff last stand to save at least one to River crossing for their routed Bologna taken Bologna was taken saturday by the 91st and 34th entering from the and pol ish troops of the eighth marching from the the Ger Man withdrawal came suddenly after the converging Allied columns threatened to Seal off Oil Mark Clark said his 15th army group now Vitands inside i the Gateway to the Popois de to destroy the germans who continue to enslave and exploit Northern the Welcome in Bologna was less tumultuous than the Southern italian cities had offered arid Ger Man planes returned the next might to drop antipersonnel concentrating on Highway 05 just South of the where Allied Supply units preparing for the immediate Advance spearheading the fifth army push across the to is the 10th Mountain which forged the first Bridgehead monday after a 5omile drive in two Days russians encircle Berlin 70 of negro forces Are serving overseas War Dent reported this week that of the 82 negroes serving in the per cent Are serving overseas i Hose serving overseas include o jj54 airmen infantrymen commissioned Back pay was a Pfizer Chase of who went to the Philippines As an instructor in the filipino army and remained to fight with guerillas when War broke has received in Back the major was paid for the period from to March continued from Page 1 Lin has become a Jungle of mountains of debris and bricks As Well As deep thousands of German Tommy gunners Are hiding in this destruction was rained on every Side As the slowly creeping russian artillery destroyed everything in the line of and then moved on to the next doomed Stock to spread another carpet of fire and below the deafening vol Leys roared Back and Forth in sub ways and sewers As the russians fought to crush the nazi troops using underground networks to stage Surprise raids on soviet nazi soldiers reportedly used underground expresses to Rush from station to popping up at unexpected Points behind the lines to get in a few the germans were also trans Ferring fresh units and arms via at one russian tanks and artillery were called to blast open a path for soviet in Fantry which drove the germans Back at Bayonet soviet troops followed them into the pitch dark Tunnel and set Iff mines to at other underground the russians managed to pull Small guns into the subway and fire along Hitler in Berlin an incessant Battle was also raging in the skies above the the Luftwaffe lashed everything it could Muster against the mass Ive russian columns pouring into but suffered heavy losses against the russian and Ameri can according to soviet front re the defenders of Berlin Are on the verge of Jyz Setias correspondent reported increasing signs of chaos and confusion among the remnants of the nazi Garrison and stated that the col Eisenhower lauds stars and stripes Allied Forward command up stars and the United states army daily must remain comple Tely free As Long As it Dwight Eisenhower said in a message of congratulations to the staff of the papers new Frankfurt i join every i in Europe in expressions of appreciation to the papers staff and in the Earnest Hope that before Long the stars and stripes will be published in the heart of a completely Defeated t the supreme Cornland or urns of Jerry prisoners consist of youths and elderly the most surprising German claim of the week is that Hitler himself is in Berlin directing its defense and using both crack nazi divisions from the West front and women in the newly organized free there seemed to be some confusion on this report 4 who is also in Berlin spurring on its was Given As the radio Moscow announced that German troops have been killed or captured on the front since january raising the vast toll of claimed German casualties to More than in nearly four years while the Long awaited and historic Battle of Merlin far Over shadowed other by Ger Man the russians Serfi knifing deep into they purportedly n 57 Miles from other units were said to 89 Miles from hitlers Mountain Bonus mover for infantrymen pay bonuses to All front line infantry men in this War have been urged by representative Weiss As a tribute to Ernie Weiss said he would press the House for enactment of a Bill to provide 50 per cent increases Over base pay to All holders of combat infantrymen he will seek to have the Bonus made re on George who com mands the 27th has also put in a plug for the front line pad the 50 per cent extra pay for aviators is All he but if anybody gets it the infantryman the ten per cent Bonus for combat soldiers is a step in the right direction but it is in chm for late president Washington own the House judiciary committee has approved legislation authorizing president Truman to award posthumously to Franklin Delano Roo Sevelt the congressional medal of Chicago orientalist dead Chicago Albert professor of Oriental history at the University of Chi is