Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 3, 1945, Cairo, Egypt The chinese float Weilin and of the Lete reoccupation of the for uth aah base site came Latel Friday had been in enemy hand i since japs who fled the City were mov ing along an escape route already Cut by were fac ing the announce ment the victorious forces were under command of Tan Zenpo who had faced the japs in Hunan province when the invaders began a drive last year to establish ill fated transcontinental Cor mean the chinese have also driven Back japanese attempting spa v China through and heavy fighting con Tinea Possession of two Strate Gic fighting has been going on Lor almost two months along the to mountainous Indochina in was announced that Carrier planes of the British East indies Fleet have struck heavily at Jap installations on approaches to land based bomb ers also hit capital of Southeast Asia revealed a British East indies task Force is Clearing minefields in Waters off the West coast of the malay Penin riffles As mortar Sll Gera London the War office announced that British troops in the Southeast Asia command will be issued rifles equipped with mortar shooting attachments and double edged bayonets designed for cutting trails through other japs to convince him air Power Oah do pelted states tight and Japan out of the Barney Giles said in Ati in for the Pacific stars and recently appointed commander of the Strate Gic air forces in the said it is Bard to it equalize Bow Ine japanese will be Able to continue for Many More since the Home islands Are now As isolated As invasion phase invasion of Japan made by Over whelming forces Ever concentrated military rear Job Lith Fleet of in a sen be the tightening the blockade and the bombing of Urban and Industrial areas with increasing ferocity already has started the invasion of japs Are route to san Diego to take charge of Bat the it Holland Howlin mad Smith of the marines told reporters that the japs Are already worse off than the germans were at any time in the european jute said his guess was that Jap an could not last More than six months if they continue to their excess Supply is just about gone and Tih Eyre hemmed in on their own Little declared darkest hour could still Rob countries around but Japan virtually is Cut off from China by Lack of Bank shot destroys bomber medium bomber was destroyed by its own bomb during an attack on a japanese merchant ship in japans Inland dropped at Mast the bomb hit the merchantman bounced struck the the plane was blown to pieces by the exploding pocket battleship in action Navy officials disclosed that the Battle Cruiser the american version of the pocket has been in action against the japs nearly six the is longer and heavier than Many old Type and has one sister the powerful b32 makes Tokyo debut new York War officials Here disclosed that the giant b32 is now in action against the Jap smaller in most dimensions than her the famed Large numbers of these improved bombers Are regularly rocking ene my installations in conjoin Section with raids by 20th air Force although the b32 has a non pressurised Hull she is Able to work from Heights of army spokesmen quote her Speed at better than 300 Miles per official reports indicate she can carry her heavy bomb loads Amaz ing pilots declare the Maneule ability of this new mistress of the makes her a Joy to the b32 in Sev eral completely new she is pounds lighter than the equipped also with specially designed adjoining bomb the b32 can carry longer bombs Ihan her the b32 is also the first land Type plane on which have been installed thrust pro these have proven invaluable in emergency on Short runways they constitute an extra nicely effective of aerodynamic often stopping a plane which would otherwise Over run the Field and men who Fly the new ship have nicknamed the and they Are among the most comple Tely trained flying groups in his the Pilot receives 50 hours of training in the new plane before he allowed to handle the con Only those men who have had hours flying time Aspi lots of other types of four engined ships Are eligible to Fly the new according to the which is the Pride of her consolidated Vultee Al though built for can be easily transformed into an efficient peacetime Houston Judd Mortimer be who wrote a tampering with trifles for the Houston Post for 45 years died standing in a group which includes George Patton and Omar Bradley and War Henry president Harry Truman watches the stars and stripes raised Over the group control Council of the in the Flag is the same one that flew from the Capitol in Washington when the entered the War and was brought to Rome to be unfurled there after that cites capture by the 5th Acme super forts continued from Page 1 the american record in Europe of in the British and american naval forces continued to prowl off the East coast of Jap shelling and hurling Carrier in a Moonlight night Bat the wagons a loosed a bombard ment from a distance of six Miles from the Shore on site of a propeller Plant and naval Arsenal 125 Miles Southwest of the came an assault by Carrier planes against the four remaining japanese battleships in the Inland to communique from Nimitz revealed that three were heavily among them being the Haruna which was bombed by Colin Kelly in the first Days of fighting following Pearl two additional blows were dealt on the broken enemy Fleet in the Inland sea with the reported sink ing of the battleship Hyuga the a converted warship with a flight deck for catapulting was sunk in the great kure naval base where remnants of the Fleet took futile Refuge under Ca in order to bore into targets along the Inland swarms of Allied Carrier planes knocked Down scores of Jap fighters which came out of hiding and tried to Ward off the pre invasion it was third attack of the week by the third Fleet against leaving Japan without a single heavy War ship fit for during the sweeps Halsey Carrier planes Nad knocked out 26 warships including three six aircraft car and four foe loses on wednesday the third Fleet Carrier planes shifted their attacks to the Nagoya area to Saizuru naval base on the sea of 550 Miles West of the shift from targets in the Tokyo area was made because of bad Over 56 enemy planes were Des troyed on the ground and 33 others damaged in afternoon Hajsey also reported eight ships sunk or including aussies Jab at Jap breadbasket Manila Macarthur re ports that australian patrols on Borneo have encountered stubborn resistance in the an apparent determination to hold the Fertile 56mile Inland Valley As a last ditch the enemy appears to be making a general withdrawal along the seventh australian divisions Samarinda Oil Field 60 Miles North of reporting on the japs still trap Ped North of Baguio on Oscar com manding the 14th says that the Battle in the mountains is the toughest Hes Ever Rains and Clouds among the foot peaks often halt the fighting because of poor the sixth division ceased fire in Ziangas for seven hours to allow thousands of trapped enemy soldiers under Yamashita a Chance to but not one came a Light Cruiser and two during the estimated dam age left by Carrier and land based planes was at least ships and Small Craft sunk or damaged in Jap Home and More than aircraft destroyed or dam undersecretary of Navy Artemus claiming the final Success of the Navy in wiping out the Jap anese Fleet As a fighting Force said the japs do not have a single battleship left in they probably still have two three three 15 to 25 destroyers and some but our Are free to roam the enemy coast at will shelling har rail lines and vital install he japans Only escape now from utter he was immediate Hitler mystery again Berlin Alexander russian chairman of the Allied command amur for said there is no definite proof that Hitler is dead Clde plate crashed Down into the battleship California at lingayen Gulf Ori january 9 and damaged her causing 203 casualties let the old ship did hot cease the lingayen Gulf action was third in which the 24yearold battleship suffered major damages and hit by two Torpe does at Pearl she was raised from the mud to repay the japanese at Tinian and the two planes attacked the califor Nias formation at the first was shot Down and the second which had been hit appeared ing the ship i when it banked and roared in upside Down to crash against the the ship made temporary repairs while still underway and carried out an assignment later proceeding to puget for re f Mississippi rejoins Fleet Washington Navy officials disclosed this that the Battle ship which was dam aged by Jap suicide plane january 9th in the Battle of Gay in is Back in the ships original striking Force has been increased until she now has 300 per cent More fire Power than German losses Over 4 million Navy and air Force casualties from the Start of the War to last november 30 totalled according documents seized a British intelligence officer who disclosed the contents said he had no reason to doubt their authentic the figure miss prisoners and those discharge because of permanent disabilities but excluded wounded men who returned to this is presumed to have run into hundreds of a Admiral censures British Pacific Aid Thomas Hart former Admiral of the Pacific criticized British participation in the Paci fic War and eluded the United states for not being adept in the use of its bargaining Power with Britain during the closing debate on the he told his colleagues that of the United states had Best Rea Lize that our own forces must continue to Bear the Brunt of the War in the a detachment of the Navy is now fighting with the american forces in the Hart but he added Admiral Nimitz does not need them because by the time they join he had already beaten the Jap anese Navy in the sea and in the our own was Al ready sufficient to do what then remained to be Australia plans to reduce army by half Canberra Australia plans to reduce her army by 50 per cent and her air Force nearly As prime minister Chifley the he would be maintained at present emphasizing that Australia con siders it vital for her forces to take part in the main offensive against Chifley stated that the limitations of Australia Man Power capacity and material Al ready had been pointed out to the United kingdom and United Australia proposal to reduce her forces has been communicated to who was said to be in Accord with
