Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 6, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                July 1945 details Are of jeeps slash roads a font of radial ires stretch werewolves Are with nazis Are functioning and the German reports the nazis in the officers told Allied Ini authorities two months the guerrillas were Ori months after the nations collapse to they supposedly being directed from Headquarters outside Germany to which guerrilla leaders escaped aft the of a Rwy w of firebombs on Lour japanese Indus roared Over japans it split the super forts then  on site1 of japans Shore of Shi Voneskl Strait at the Western Entrance to ialan4 sea a major Coal and magnesium Region and key transportation City and Mili tary training Center on Western none of Hift four cities had been hit previously with firebombs and they raised the number of Jap cities fired by explosives in 33 assaults by the Twenty first Pom her throughout the week even on the of july the us performs took off from their Marianas striking again and again explosives and incendiaries huge and explosions ripped through the important japanese Oil refinery of mar zen in a medium Altitude attack lire raids seared Tokushiro Taka at Sti and Kochi on Shi Kofu Island and Hii Neji across the Inland sea and the full weight of the supers was Felt in the shipbuilding Center of the port and chemical Center of bbb Oka and in Industrial Tokyo radio conceded in the american Aerial j a total of Des Rovah five big m Liew Jap suieid0 hit Carrier t into the flight the u5s Bunker hit near the deck Edge elevator and Denetia ref marines Are Jap guests mass Karikari party v w stumbled into a pocket of 350 a me4 japs and wooed them with cigarettes for two hours while broadcasting a description of their suicides was revealed i George Thompson four other marines passed out Cigar ets while using his Walki talkie to Broad cast a scene of self outnumbered and son just bowed an4 hid his weapons while shout and also kept chattering Over the radio to the battalion command Post of the sixth marines Twenty ninth re he warned the Post com Mand not to Ive an idea that if i Stop talking they will kill the suicides began with Japa Nese officers killing women who accompanied then killing themselves at the rate of one per minute with the officers giving their watches and flags to amazed offering plenty of Thompson lured 150 japs toward the Ameri can lines which was just Yards from the bloody remains of the already startled beyond the marines could Only goggle when 350 Okinawa civilians poured out of caves following the japanese commented the lieutenant Chatta broadcast u p or afloat under her own and she limped to port for uss Ingraham survives hit san Francisco a Jap suicide plane crashed broadside into the uss North of Okinawa in Early killing 15 and wounding 30 of her the Navy the suicide Pilot hit the ship so hard it left an almost perfect print of Bis plane on the but the successful attack did not come until after the i grahams guns had kicked Down six other suicide the Ingraham proceeded under her own Power to san fran 3to the Navy revealed that the Gallant Little destroyer uss beat off attacks of four suicide planes of 59 the dived on the Bunker Rotthe strangest dogfight stories of the the extreme guns of e japanese and american had Frozen and for Sev Prai minutes they made future parses at each other pressing Tif Aren Rolv was Corsair finally succeeded in luring Altitude where guns and he downed tues said the the Battle was a British sub bags Cruiser the Navy g Ajnese Cruiser by the has Trench a British submarine operating under american control in the Southwest in addition the communique said that the United states submarines have reported sinking 10 enemy vessels m far Eastern Poison Hootch kills 29 gis Manila Poison liquor Here has killed 20 americans and one Filimo since the cites occupation nearly five months and the army Provost marshals office is cracking Down on the Rich Boom ing clubs and restaurants medi Cal examiners revealed that of 40 samples of liquor tested 34 contained memorial for Ernie Pyle a Ryukyu soldiers of the 77th infantry division Dedic ated a Monument to Ernie Pyle on the spot where the War correspondent was killed by a Jap sni the Concrete Monument rep laces a painted Board and bears a plaque made from Shell casings it reads on this spot the 77th infantry division lost a buddy Ernie april Balikpapan Oil typhoons slow Manila the australian in Vasion troops at Balikpapan on Southeast Borneo have strategically won their their sir Leslie Morshead m the japs fled Inland As the aus sies made their invasion monday Over blasted Beach defences and Shell seared regaining from Jap control the richest Oil Fields of the East production runs to Many Mil Lions of barrels of crude Oil each Oil so pure it can be used As ship fuel without being Harbor Balikpapan Bay provides Anchorage for unlimited making a logical base for operations through the Makassar Straits against other enemy held on the third Day of enemy resistance stiffened but aussie capture of seeing Gan air Field brings heart of the dutch East within fighter Range of the allies for the first time in Over three sixth army anniversary on the typhoon with swirling winds and has intervened to impede the ame rican Popup Campaign where Kreuger sixth army Satur Day celebrated two years of War fare against the frustrated hot shot with ammunition belts and Finger on air Force gunner waiter Bethle flew out on first Mission Over Europe just rain to no thing so tried and kept on in the Sarge flew 50 More than 250 combat without Ever an enemy plane coming into his Hes Home on leave now but Hopes his Luck will change when he ships out to the Pacific Center seized Luzon Popup in those two years Krueger troops have made 21 amphibious landings and travelled Over 4000 on the birth and filipino Germas captured in the augean River c Macarthur announced that More Jap dead and 711 prisoners were counted last bringing the Cost to the japs in to including prison Macarthur also took part m the Balikpapan Landing with the australians and on the second Day of the Landing Jap sniper fire As he stood with an austra Lian brigadier less than 200 Yards from enemy defense positions on the most advanced aussie com Mand new command announced the aussie Landing followed Aerial bombardment from carriers operating with the seventh Fleet also m the operation were the Royal australian Ond Royal net Herlands in Honolulu Robert c was appointed commanding general of the mid dle Pacific for the final assault against joined with Wilhelm recently named come Mander of the Western Richards new command thus creates two huge pipelines to pour Sun lies and equip ment into the at announced she command makeup for units serving under Stilwell new commander of the tenth a naval forces will be under the command of Bear c h comb the tactical air Force is commanded by Lewis Woods of the the Island of Okinawa is under maj Wallace and the third Fleet forces in the Ryukyu is under vice out of Luchow invade inching troops recaptured the prize of Tjui Anuw Ana scored new gains 111 the mounting Otner forces wedged their into this marking the first inva Sion of the former French Colony since its occupation during the first few weeks of the Pacific the Large Loriner air was won after a relent less prolonged Battle which left the City battered and immediately the victors a two pronged one Force mov ing 90 Miles North and the other toward Tan about 100 Miles both Are former bases of the 14th driving the hastily retreating remnants of the japs Lui now Garrison the chinese advanced 15 Miles to retake Liu fighters and bombers of the 14th supported ground japs strike Back chinese troops who pushed into Indochina have suffered a set Back under counterattack and a Battle is now raging in areas adjacent to North of Chung Chengfu fell soon after the chinese Cut across Frontier but the rallying rushed reinforcements from Cao Bing and retook the in the America patrolled off the Asbuth China the Island of which lies the Gulf of Tonking Between Pui Chow Peninsula and Indochina was reoccupied by chinese and local militiamen who easily wrested the Island from its Small Jap in the narrow neck of the Jap Overland corridor in Chi the chinese have closed arc within 10 Miles of Keichow and have apparently recon control of All the Keichow Kwangsik first rail route to be regained since the War Start but Jap reinforcements in this narrow passageway Between Han Kow and Hon Kong disprove Ier indications that the japs plan Ned to abandon the Rice bowl Chiang wants More help Generalissimo Chiang in his first conference since alleged this week that the is not giving China enough eco nomic although stressing that he enjoys the military and Diplo Matic cooperation o Al Bert Comman Der in Chiang Burtred that More american economic experts be he pointed out that it More economical to train and equip chinese troops to fight the taps on the Mainland than to Send troops from the Generalissimo stated that with proper equipment and train a chinese Soldier can fight As Well As three foreign add that if foreign troops could whip the japs in two Chi Nese forces could accomplish the feat in Progress in Burma has been slowed by Monsoon Fains which have turned roads into quagmires a Force of Al fut 500 trying to Cross the sitting River on was Vir Tuaila wiped reported seac warships blast Japan continued from Page 1 on Okinawa Southeast coast As the american Flag was raised to Honor men of the seventh in Fantry division who wrested this last defense Ridge from the according to the Domei news Jap planes attacked air Fields on Okinawa and be but claimed that the bulk of the empires air Force is being reserved for the anticipated invasion of the forces have carried out Landing operations on six addition Al Small conquering the Northern without firing More than a single shot troops car ried out an operation unique in Island warfare with a jeep sized Landing and two Landing Craft infantry putting two platoons of negro infantry ashore on i the following islands 95 Miles North of Sai and West of american patrols occupied All of Little Kume Island without extend ing the invasion springboard an other 50 and adding pos sible Airstrip Sites and Small Craft port Nimitz announced that the total coast of the seizure of Oki Nawa and ajl associated naval 46319 of that to Navy personnel and marines were killed or