Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 12, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur Class b allotment taken today makes you eligible for the stars and stripes War Bond contest Pace 5 full Page of pictures of Germany surrender signing Oft Page 5. One franc vast shuffle begins As gun goes off on Start of Point Lafi col Gen. Gusts Jodi signing the surrender Jot Germany at 8haef Forward Headquarters in Rheims Early monday. Left to right Are maj. G. 8. Wilhelm Oxenius of the German general staff Jodi Gen. Adm h Ana Georg Freideberg German naval chief and maj. Gen. K. W. D. Strong 8haef g-2. However when the War department decides to revalue Petter after the defeat of Japan for example thoes men with Haj Flor scores wig have an advantage. Com z outlined the following program that a Day brings to 0xa in the to units to be split up in most units key specialists end non coms will have the highest scores and will be transferred preparatory to being shipped. Home. Units will at once begin training men to replace them. Some units will be re activated and their members split up Lucky ones to go Home some to stay a frs and others to go to the Pacific. Continued on Page a Raf crewmen ask for duty in Pacific London May 11 ins a air Crews of 20 Raf bomber squadrons have volunteered to go to the far East to drop 12-ton bombs on Japan. Included Are members of the Ace Lancaster squadrons which attacked German targets in Day Light raids. Raids on Japan by 2,000 super fortresses augmented by hundreds of bombers from Europe were envisioned yesterday by it. Gen. James h. Doolittle chief of the eighth of and his Deputy maj. Gen. Orvil Anderson. Doolittle told reporters in London that just As the eighth of rendered the Luftwaffe incapable of defending Germany and reduced the mobility of German land forces so huge armadas of aircraft would weaken Japan. Leader of the first Aerial attack on Tokyo the Carrier borne b25 attack in 1942, Doolittle predicted that the Pacific air War would be on an even greater scale than the continued on Page 8 Snow hits cities in East Midwest new York May 11 ans a snowstorms in widely separated parts of the country brought Snow drifts and Low temperatures to sections of the East and Midwest yesterday. Upstate new York communities were blanketed under As much As three inches of Snow. An All time record was set at Albany when the Airport weather station reported 2 8 inches by dusk. Points for ardennes Washington May ii ans a a the ardennes Campaign last Winter was included by the wan department. Today in a Complete list of campaigns for which five demobilisation Points will be awarded. This was the first official statement that ardennes veterans would get an extra Battle Star. Virtually every Restee on the Riviera was counting on his fingers yesterday. The gis were figuring up their Points trying to stretch the number to 85 and a possible discharge. When the counting was Over the soldiers gathered in Little knots reread the stories in the stars and stripes and discussed the army a mathematical plan for partial demobilization. On the basis of a strictly unscientific and highly informal Survey conducted by the stars and stripes this was the general verdict 1�?the 85-Point figure for tentative discharge consideration is All right the gis Felt not Many men would qualify but that the army did not intend to release a vary High percentage of soldiers. 2.�?too much credit is Given for babies resulting in situations whore two men with identical army expert Noe have entirety different scores. 3.�?hot enough distinction is made Between combat men who have Boon shot at and men who have been Over a eat a Long time but Seldom in any particular danger. La almost every Soldier would take an immediate i charge if he could got it most was would t object to staying in until the Feci Fie War is Over. Men with More than 85 Points were in the minority men who topped 100 were exceptional. 1-sgt. Rodney o. Sharpe 25. Of the 28th inf. Div. And Dayton Ohio had 132. A regular army Man and one of the few who could Start scoring from september 1940, Sharpe came overseas in May. 1942, when the fifth div. Landed in Iceland. He Sakl he would take a discharge As soon As possible Quot unless they let me stay in Nice which they won Pic. Frank Korkowski 34, of the 68th pm Refrigeri continued on Page 8
