Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 17, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                Africam1ddle East August 1945 i r i t r Hungary and All declared War at it invade Philip f nations declaration m s6 Pitons fighting a pledge o com capture Manila approx Falls to Japan april american flier i from the Carrier bomb Tokyo and other Japan Ese a May invasion Fleet pm Defeated in Battle of Coral May Gallant Cor 4 Regidor r june Fleet Defeated Battle of restoring balance of naval Power in a june states Navy re Veals Jap landings in Aleu August land on Guadalcanal in the Solomon is occupation comp Lena february Oft to Nikirk August v capture after siege since May occupy Money Hunan key Junction of Canto nhan Kow sept troops land on be Lelia Island of Palau group in Carolines a Gaur taken september philippine invasion 20americans land in Philip Pines on coast of Oci for Leyte ending with 58 japanese War ships Eufre or damaged warships and some lighter vessels enter 0y to Central Cap cured it december super fortress attack Ion Tokyo War Macarthur announces Leyte Campaign 1945 of May we enter Okinawa and capture it a 8th r air Force redeployment to Pacific May Curtis Lemay says super forts Lay waste to 51 Square Miles of Tokyo in six attacks in Luiree May Chi Angre signs 7as Grimmer of China but 1943 Roosevelt and meeting at Gasabyan l1 cd evolves an unconditional sur Render formula for the Axis Afir maps future driven from v aleutians with Unoo sed ame leaving with Only Germany As a announced i Sarthe soviet an chinese declaration at Moscow pledges an inter nation Noy americans land in Gil tier Churchill and Chiang Waishek at Cairo plan to strip Japan of All territory won by american forces land in new on of 1944 land on Kwa a hoi and Namur in the in the first inva Sion of prewar japanese Man dated Kwajalein was secured february Carrier task Force attacks sinks 23 japanese March infantry units Dis closed to be fighting on the Asiatic alongside chinese in North March invade Mani Pur from april Plant Netherlands Flag at Hollandia on nether lands new cleanup completed april june super fortresses in first Mission attack revealed Battle of Saipan june amphibious for Ces land at Saipan in Maria organized resistance ends july june in first attack on Japan proper from Western China bases bomb Yawata in june of philippine sea Breaks japanese Effort to reinforce japanese losses 16 vessels sunk or dam aged at least 402 planes Des losses four ships receive minor damage 106 planes lost but most airmen june and Chin Dite capture july troops land on Guam and resistance forces land on Luzon in the Philippines at american sixth army troops enter City is cleared March marines land on iwo Jima in Volcano group 750 Miles South organized resistance ends March 16 with japanese officers and men March chinese capture Railhead of the old Burma March British 14th army Cap Tures april 1 americans invade Okina largest of Ryukyu Island april Koiso Cabinet which had succeeded Tojos Cabinet a few Days after to Jos fall july april Suzuki Cabinet takes president Roosevelt Dies april president Roosevelt Dies unexpectedly and president Truman pledges to prosecute the War on both fronts East and West with All the vigor we possess to a successful Conlu army forces land on in Island off Northwest Oki Nawa and Complete Conquest april april take Bur Mas greatest Oil Center americans virtually Complete Visayan Campaign in april British Fleet strike against Sumatra area a noun april British uth army takes Burmas second Oil april states troops lib Erate philippine sum Mer capital on april death total in Philippines reached May land on Tara Kan off East Borneo and take All major objectives by Germany surrenders May Burma is Allied amphibious forces land below Burma and occupy City the next May liberate Davao on Mindanao British take Burma Mountbatten says japanese killed in Burma May left alone in War by unconditional surrender of Germany signed at Eisenhower reims Headquarters and ratified at Berlin May May super fortresses Batter japanese Home islands of Hon Shu May enter Fpo Chow and liberate it May May 5th Carrier planes destroy 176 japanese planes in strikes at Kyushu and May 500 super fortress attack drops tons of incendiaries on May chinese 6th army Back in China after transport from Burma by remains and president and com mandarin chief Soong becomes june in eighty percent of Formo Sas Industrial capacity reported knocked out by far East air president Truman tells Congress the army in the Pacific will be More than doubled to exceed the total strength of men employed in american ground and air forces in from Okinawa and two june Nimitz announces planes from Okinawa and iwo Jima bases Are now attacking june australian ninth div Ision lands in Brunei Bay area of Northwest june dictatorial Powers granted Suzuki government after extraordinary session of Jap anese june 1358th super fortress Wing reported operating against Japan after mile mass flight from Chin India Thea Ter to june British Pacific Fleet makes today assault on Truk june at says japanese targets will be bombed at rate of tons yearly beginning in he announced that the far East air Force and 8th Force to be equipped with super fortresses will Partick sixth army enters Ca enemy Luzon stronghold from june Simon Bolivar Buckner is killed on Marine major Roy Gei Ger assumes temporary com Mand of Ryukyu june Albert Wede Meyer announces tactical Headquarters to be established in Battle of Okinawa ends june 21 Nimitz announces end of organized enemy resist Ance on Okinawa after 82 Days of the enemy lost 853 dead and americans lost dead and including the heaviest naval casualties of the Pacific australians land 80 Miles South of Brunei Bay on capture Miri and seria oilfield areas with in two soviet Allied duty and liberation of entire Archi july third Fleet Carrier planes attack Tokyo area and destroy damage 342 Nimitz unpriced entry names american warships Particia july Fleet attacks Era Honshu and Southern Kaido and shells enemy Home land for first time in Macarthur and Mountbatten Confer in greatest sea assault july command of american and British assembled in greatest strength in Send car Rier planes against Tokyo and Shell nearby big three at Potsdam select Truman to preside at july Carrier planes heavily damage enemy Battle ship anchored in Tokyo july trapped in lower Burma launch futile escape which eventually costs them july and British Carrier joined by far East air heavy attacks which Send to Bottom or heavily damage remaining major unite of enemy caught in Inland july arrives in England after conferences with Truman and Stalin at july China and in Potsdam ultimatum to Jap an demand immediate unconditional surrender and warn enemy he faces prompt and utter july air Force beg ins Advance notice to japanese of super fortresses target joint Oarrie plane strikes july and British Carrier planes strike japans West Shell Southern Pacific Fleet Battle ship attacks Wake Force of 882 super fortresses makes history greatest air attack against air Force says its planes and other Pacific forces have Cut japans food imports to a atomic bomb in his tory obliterates 60 percent of japanese City of atomic bombs Seal Fate Truman announces the new weapon Deve loped in harnesses Basic Force of universe in great est scientific Advance of All he warns japanese to surrender or face unprecedented rain of ruin foreign commissar to Nide truer is entering War against Molotov reveal soviet Union rejected japanese request for mediation of Asiatic War As because of Jap anese refusal to accept pots dam surrender ninth red army strikes Man second atomic More powerful than the devastates combined american British Fleet attacks Honshu by air and Truman again warns Jap an to capitulate or be Des offer to surrender to terms of Potsdam Declara Tion of july providing the emperors prerogatives Are not prejudiced China and Russia agree to accept japans qualified offer of provided the authority of the emperor and the japanese government to Rule the state shall be subject to supreme commander of the Allied for yank flyer rescued from Jap Doorstep with the third Fleet heres the amazing Story of a Rescue within 50 Yards of the Hon Shu Vernon of Lom was shot Down in Corsair and swept ashore on Hon shu1 by heavy he stayed Over in the morning he signalled yank fliers attacking the main of lighted within 50 Yards of Shore in a Kumler  make it to the frantically trying to throw Cumber a rope while the japs turned on both machine gun and Tackack swept from but Man aged to get to Alman of finally Landel his King Fisher underwire and both Cumber and Jacobs managed to reach his plane the Kingfisher and the three pilots made it safely Back to most devastated City Guam of the scores of Jap anese cities which have Felt the might of the most devastated is a City of 000 about 160 Miles Northwest of news censorship is out news adopted after was abolished wednesday by order of the president in a directive sent to director of censor ship Byron june Joseph Stillwell appointed 10th army com june at says Okinawa will be base for b29s june naval forces make first penetration of sea of okhotsk Between Buriles and june economic administrator Crowley reports to the House appropriations com Mittee that lend lease is going to soviet Siberia be cause red army forces there tie up Large numbers of the enemy in liberation of Luzon june Macarthur announces liberation of seventh Fleet reported operating in Makassar Straits As far East air Force continues daily bombing of Balikpapan begun june july land at South Borneo Oil Center of Balik Papan on vital macassar Strait by end of push enemy into july 600 super fortresses attack enemy Homeland in largest Force sent against Jap Luly East air Force planes from Okinawa join air attacks a nation shared their sorrow and Newman the grief stricken parents of have a last glimpse of their Hera son at his funeral at fort Veteran of Bataan and the March of was known As the Someier who came Home to press