Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 4, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                Ton was f v of mid and is still a mile May  intr hit Doksi and fhe Jap Pilot made a t1 i la St Jit Pilot crashed his plane of the after other Jap planes watched the assault but Only the Comfort proceeded to port under her own planes saturday and 6m k 4 pc the enemy in this Jap y planes were shot e Moonlight yanks enraged fore Alon Day by a japanese pilots suicide attack on a helpless Navy Hospital ship evacuating the unescorted uss Comfort was attacked and heavily when yank met red on Elbe River t t or Angoon Shelle by warships As troops close in Calcutta Allied forces have poured ashore on both sides of Rangoon on the Burma coast after Parachute landings in the area British warships Are blasting from the British troops Are driving Down from the North and have reached within 35 Miles of the they stormed cutting the main Road and Tail escape routes for an troops in the this swiftest Advance in the Burma Campaign began saturday when armoured spearheads of the British uth army plunged 64 Miles in 24 hours against slight opposition and aided by native Mitchell piloted by blasted japs at pegu and set fires in on the West flank of this main drive other 14th army troops moved through the Rich Oil Region to within nine Miles of on the West Bank of the the fall of Rangoon would bring a virtual end to the Burma Cam Jap Homeland hit five Days in Row hitting by Daylight and i Excel Lent bombing a Force of nearly 130 Mariana based super forts blasted military installations on the Mam Jap Homeland islands monday for the fifth consecutive Many of the targets hit wore air Fields on Kyushu and Shi Koku which Are being used As Stag ing bases for Jap aircraft raiding yanks on germans groggy continued frontage 1 but Hamburg has not yet been the nearby Baltic ports of Wilhel shaven and Emden Are being threatened by Ca Nadian advances hammering their three army drive deeper into the mountains of Bavaria and across the Frontier of the third and seven Ali and the French first scored Large Patton sent one armoured Force racing along the upper Banko the Danube in the direction of the austrian City of White another Arm of tanks thrust Down the austrian Border toward Salzburg and Tol Bukhina army which pushed Westward beyond Vienna along the Danube lower Bank last reported to be1 East of Indi Cating an imminent juncture with the third Advance on Brenner pass Patch seventh smashed the Savage defense of Munich and in a special order of the Day was congratulated by Eisenhower on the seizure of Cradle of the nazi on the out skirts of the american troops liberated Allied prisoners from a prison Camp and killed 3oo guards to free political prisoners from the death filled concentration Caine at surging beyond seventh army tanks Are closing in on the pass with parallel drives approaching Innsbruck and As French forces capture Fried Richshafer on Lake Constance and Pierce the Western tip of the cleanup of wehrmacht remnants in Central Czechoslovakia is being pursued by Malinovsky and Yeremenko in a pincer drive on provincial City of Malinovsky swung North eastward from Brno and Yere Ravenko struck southwestward from Morava a Ostrava in what appears to be a synchronized Man Euver to converge on Olmutz and bisect to new soldiers liberated from German prison Camps will be assigned to operate pow Camps for enemy soldiers in turned in new new Jersey and the second service command because they Are considered to be eminent la qualified for these yanks fake land on Manila on Northern Luzon the doughboy Are mopping up around captured bitterly defended last City which the japs could use As a philippine on 750 Miles to the the yanks Are meeting lightened resistance As they move into fall of Baguio came sunday when the 33rd and 37th divisions moved in after a stiff skirmish on the Western Baguio is the Hub of three highways provid ing main Jap communications with final holdouts further to the the 25th division has now driven a wedge into the Jap lines defend ing Balete pass in the Caraballo mountains after a stiff artillery Ibe Davao Advance was furthered in the capture by guerillas of Tali Kud nine Miles off the Tali Kud is about five Long and is on the shipping lanes towards the Macarthur 24th division has pushed into the Davao out skirts through Boob trapped roads that have proved As dangerous As the Jap capture of the last Northern philippine City in enemy is expected shortly fierce Borneo fighting most serious enemy threat to the Philippines this week has been their control of Manila water sup ply in the mountains East of the two yank regiments Are on the High in the wearing Field jackets for the first time in this phase of the Pacific wednesday the Allied command confirmed a Jap broadcast that fierce lighting was in Progress in he Tarakan area of dutch Bor where the allies made amphibious landings tuesday morn ing under naval and air this is Hie historic moment when infantrymen of the first army funked hands with russian soldiers on a Bri Geover the up was password at Yan Kovarich linkup a wild scene of rejoicing followed the historic meeting of americans and russians at Tougau on the Elbe last with soldiers of both armies slapping each other on the giving each other Bear sitting in the warm Sunshine drinking Champagne from German Beer mugs and toasting the great occasion a Symbol of nazi Walter Robertson of los an Geles is believed to have sealed the linkup when atop a girder of a blowup Bridge where he had met a soviet private half Way he stuck out his hand and put it there describing How he led his 69th division patrol to a juncture with the soviet Vanguard on the Elbe Northeast of Robertson told correspondents our company commander sent us out this morning to Chase civilians off the they were piling into Wyrtzen in driving East to Tougau we could hear Small arms fire very some German prisoners told us the russians were across the used improvised Flag we left our jeep and went Down on foot toward the we rigged up a big White Flag so they  shoot at us because we didst know what the russian uniform looked like and i want sure they would recognize i broke into a store near the got some paint and painted four red stripes on our White Flag and a Field of climbed into a Tower and waved the the firing i yelled they yelled Back at me and fired two i went Down and noticed one russian Pri vate clambering across the so i started from our end and met him in the said Nikolai the rus Sian private i was so overjoyed to meet the americans and so glad that i didst know what to just take a ride with them in a drink or go fight the whole Day was almost too fantastic to wrote correspondent from the time a column set out in the morn ing to meet the russian until dusk settled Over the Elbe there were nothing but hours packed with emotional As the ame rican composed principally of rolled into Torgus mar Ket red army men Emer ged from the buildings and there was a concerted Rush to embrace each smiling men1 these smiling men of Stalingrad were Thev ceremoniously saluted and Shook hands with everyone they met with genuine they would grasp your hand in a crash ing clasp until you wondered How Many handshakes you could almost every Man had a rus Sian Tommy gun Slung across a some carried in their High topped and their belts held grenades and most of them had medals for valor on their the frontline observer described How celebrations sprung up along the waterfront like one huge spontaneous doughboy and russians were dancing and trying to talk to each other in sign Lan or just slapping each other on the a few americans who spoke russian were the busiest men at the interpreting for their at the command Post there was a milling of americans and rus sians about tables loaded with Cap tured Champagne and dishes of Fried Sar Salmon and happiest Day of our their lives major Dmitri Divitch of Konies 58th division toasted the group by saying is the happiest Day in All our cult for us were those Days when the germans were at now we meet one this is the end of our Long live your great Leader Long live our great Leader Glen Niswander of echoed the thoughts of All americans when he commented these Guys Are All its Nice to have Truman hailed the Junction of armies with this state ment to the troops Anglo Ameri can armies under the command of Eisenhower have met the so Viet forces where they intended to the heart of nazi Ger the enemy has been Cut in justified americas general Bradley order of the Day said soldiers of ninth and fifteenth american on april in the 29th month of our War against the German american troops of the twelfth army group joined forces with soviet elements of marshal to Nieves first ukrainian army in 10 months you have fought your Way 700 Miles from the these accomplishments were secured by your your resourcefulness and by your comrades who died to achieve armed have had great Faith the people of America who in you have justified that As you will in the Battles that torn off the to tribe Musk 6f War and was Gay with and Victory most popular of which snows russians marching through the streets of Berlin with american and British flags flying for the first time in four the lights Moscow were Berlin in shambles far to the a capital was a shattered and blazing Berlin was literally demolished in one of the most vicious Battles fought for a russian correspondents wrote that the famous tie Garten and Unter Den Liden sections in the heart of the City Are Gigantic levelled junk in the closing hours of the 12 Day soviet Shock troops closed in on hitlers Reich Chan Cellery and other final nests of resistance in the Center of after the armies of marshals Zhu Kov and Koniaev linked up in the Unter Den the trapped nazi having been Cut into several made concentrated efforts to break out through sewers and tunnels As the russians knifed deeper into the Wilhel Strasse government Juar the germans had called this the final Battle of the War and they had thrown everything into the defense of their fighting was Savage and with death battalions of wild eyed and not Only boys but Young girls of the Hitler joining the the City jihad been completely enveloped in the planes roared overhead there was fight ing in subways underneath the City men struggled in Han to hand fighting on in attics and on the roofs of build every building was a fort Ress mines and Booby traps were sewn everywhere tanks had to pick their Way through the choked austrian setup Washington the United states government does not recognize the provisional government of Austria reported to have been established under social Democrat Karl the state depart ment says that the whole question is being taken up with Moscow press reports Are the Only word received of the provisional said to be a coalition of three parties social Christian social and returns to the chancellors hip he held in he is the author of the austrian republics soviet troops now occupy hitlers death continued from Page 1 other reports mentioned various naval the world heard its first word of hitlers death tuesday night listening posts in London heard the Hamburg radio broadcast the following from the fuehrer it is re ported that our Adolf has fallen this afternoon in his command Post at the Reich fighting up to last who commanded the German was then introduced by the announcer As our new the 53yearold Admiral said that Hitler personally had appointed him As his successor on monday and vowed to save the German peo ple from the Advance of against the English and ame Doenitz i have to continue the struggle As far and As Long As they try to hinder me m the struggle against Bol she who was was lauded by Doenitz As one of the great est heroes in German