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Publication: Middle East Stars and Stripes Friday, June 22, 1945

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   Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 22, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                Were told this to of women to hurl against the Allied in in the Temple la i curl when As base in pm Sara Back in line slugging nips v f last week and rolled into the deep Valley leads North Ward to the he a gain in three Buckeye troops Gani Zed the Swift plate on okla disclosed a woman Pilot about years old who had been killed a suicide crash e super fortress on Guam i christened the Admiral m it in ceremonies this week air Force command in a praised n1 had Given v r in july height of the to a around Okinawa japanese sea and West Ern Japan Are particularly danger areas during this a Jap Pilot crashed into the Ive Feran destroyer skin Aida april 25l Ami afire in sum men were 1 l yelled the loss Emmons which Hen it to Umfer hit by five Ica Mikazes a few the Emmons f damaged she had to b29s Rock japs 4piy plow As fleets of super forts rubbed Juja med japans Home industries it the to ceased fury last week the bomber command in the Marianas announced that the air War its second in which b29s would single out smaller targets rather than the Wale areas of major just Dawn on Lour hordes of super forts totalling about 450 cascaded nearly tons of firebombs on Jap Industrial areas in Kyushu and tar gets of the giant coordinated raid were Small piecework plants known Shadow none of which had been hit by bombers two Days a b29 fire raid on a medium sized Industrial eliminated it As a future target according to return ing Shizuoka was attacked simultaneously with two other me Diu sized cities on Kyushu and and radio Tokyo reported great fires in All crewmen claim that 85 Miles Southwest of was caught by Surprise and left one solid mass of the score is now 13 japanese Homeland cities Down As a result of the super forts scorched Earth Mon More Sill Anila that he was tremendously impressed that Lane sufi Are in the Philippines m 1945 instead of a he also sex that the japs determinedly to retain All territory they have the presence on Borneo of 120 emaciated australians and americans who worked at forced labor in the Bru Nei Bay Vicinity until a month to was reported by Sumatran who escaped from the an educated Young Sumatran said he was one of interned by the japs in the indies and brought to Borneo for forced labor saying a the White persons wern from Singapore except three ame rican flyers who crashed nearby last a were taken away soon after the australians landed in Berlin gets big 3 nod the White nouse confirmed that the Forth coming big three meeting will take place in the Vicinity of Ber following the disclosure Byi Clement Britain former Deputy prime in a letter to Churchill accepting the letters invitation to press Charles Ross made the White House announce Date of the was not disclosed in either their the lies on la 1 s Northern it appears unlikely that the hampered Aerial bombardments will be Able to make a real stand m the Rich v on Jap panese forces Are fighting tenaciously to prevent an american and Vance along the East and West Banks of the Davao on the East infantrymen i of the 19th regiment finally smashed organized resistance in hemp Groves and Jungle Hills after a weeks City other 24th troops Are battling against Tough rugged bad weather and dense aussies Advance australian veterans enlarged the area they control on Borneo West coast the japanese reported mme sweeping activities the Bah Papan Oil refinery Center on the East As Well As continuous Allied naval and air bomb after capturing Brunei and the important the aussies Are pushing rapidly North from the Bay in a drive to win 130 Miles of Northwest Borneo area which would provide a Rich Oil and rubber for the Southwest of other troops reached Only 27 Miles from Sena though the two Are separated by impassable mangrove the jittery japs Are destroying the oilfields at richest in the British Empire burning and Dyna mining Wells which produce More than tons of Oil the australians also captured Timbaldi Airstrip on Labuan Island Borneo Field won since the Surprise landings on june the japanese naval base of bypassed by the allies was shelled by British warships and bombed by Carrie borne aircraft last announced Dock ships in the defense batteries and radio stations were destroyed in the today i 5f r to Ujj the uss Saratoga Queen of the again proudly sailing Jap Waters to avenge the 123 men a filed or mining in a Jap suicide Piane attack off two Jima last owl Carrier Saratoga survived 7 hits by suicide planes a u army estimates 70 of its equipment n Eto is worthy for use in the tap the navys old est and most battered aircraft car the uss is Back in action after taking seven direct hits from japanese suicide planes off iwo Jima last february the thrilling sea epic was revealed this week at puget sound Navy Yard where the Queen of the Flat tops was repaired following the at the Navy stated that the Tough old Sara took her latest beating two Days after the invasion of iwo Jima and had twice before taken enough punishment in Tor although the heroic action of her crewmen saved the ship during the iwo crewmen were killed or missing and 196 were the Saratoga was cruising with a fast Carrier task Force North of following return from her first Large scale Carrier strike at when ten suicide Jap bombers singled her out for Des Routs stopped in flight had 60 in West sixty cop Bat divisions were engaged in when the War it Germany total Allied ground strength by corps and divisions were 8rt Artil 16 4 2 1 0 42 8 3 80 oils 15 4 2 3 1 32000 Okinawa continued from Page 1 Over 200 were be fore Dawn and the remainder were hunted and shot crass i the b Nimitz it was said that the tenth army was tearing to shreds the enemy Las stand positions despite the rugged Ter rain a Surprise that the late Gen Buckner a loosed last week was uie Marine division vets of Tarawa and Saipan who roared the Okinawa Battle for the first aided by tanks and flamethrowers the marines and army men herded the mauled remnants of the Jap Garrison into a simile Corral at the islands tip and a Cave Cave cleanup was begun As the tenth army newly pro moved Roy Geter dressed for a Quick foe in death dives Large numbers of japanese leaped to death from the Cliffs of South pm and increased num Bers surrendered As americans Droke through to the South 1 he Pilot of a Low gliding artillery Potter plane said he saw Mam japanese or civilians leading into first mass suicides since the Saipan the japanese naval base killed and his body with its Throat Slit was found in an elaborate under ground command Post the japs Are dying at the rate of daily a Nimitz communique stated in the last eight Days of frenzied japs were slain swelling to enemy killed since the invasion on april lost entire town of lost consisting of t ii 11 n a i the ships ack ack gunners got four of the planes but an equal number got through and crashed into a fifth brought Down alongside slammed into the tearing open a gaping the sixth unleashed a torpedo which blew a Hole below the rupturing fuel blaring inferno a Brief Lull in the attack crewmen rushed Forward to help fallen comrades and to fight the spreading fire flaming on the Hanger the inferno was so intense that it could not be approached from ithe Interior of the other Jap planes swarmed Back an hour Sariri a half later and an other crashed into the carriers the seventh direct at this was Rushing through the fires were still blazing and the Carrier was listing by about six second attack the men cleaned up the mess and the Saratoga recovered her planes which were aloft during the Pound then she for an is land base to undergo temporary repairs until she could reach the she later made her Way to bound Navy Yard where she was repaired in a record breaking two workers said that she had varied types of damage All at once than any ship weve seen since Pearl commissioned in 27 catapults and guns were smashed and the Forward deck was beyond since her own exploding bombs and gasoline added to the Jap suicide the Saratoga was commissioned in 1927 and is still Carrier action Al though two flattops have novy been p her first important Between Hawaii and beleaguered Wake Island during tha Early Days of the she was again torpedoed during patrol activities around the6 Solomons the Belgium seethes Over King Leopolds return As the threat of a Over Belgium f a uneasily awaits the Toh f King who re demands that he and that he e a Summa his ful1 constitutional Apih socialist Premier Achille Van Hacker has resigned m protest and the belgian general confederation of labor announced mat it intends to use every Means in its including a general to oppose the reactionary work involved in Leopolds return  
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