Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 16, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur Nice Marseille edition this in deep Laramie Wyo. A rangers could t make their usual snout Survey in Medicine Bow nor tonal Forest this year. Rear son too much Snow. Praying for fare India Napolis a policeman Charles Ford has seen every things he spotted a woman cab Driver parked at a curb Reading a Bible. Daily newspaper of . Armed forces in the european theater of operation one fran wednesday May 16, 1945 Okinawa yanks seize fourth Airfield big Hiex Craf Pilot in 1a after 18 mos. Of War new Rochelle n.y., May 15 cans a Herbert p. Milligan jr., 27, who served �?o18 months overseas As a fighter Pilot with the Royal Canadian air Force has been classified 1a by his local draft Board and must report for a physical May 18. Milligan was shot Down Over Malta in october 1942, hospitalized until june 1943, and returned to Canada As a flight instructor. When the Craf training program was curtailed last april 5 he was discharged. A since selective service regulations provide for no exemption up the ground of past service to some other government he is now 1a.guam May 15 ans a it american forces have Cap tured strongly defended Yore a Baru Airfield and Are squared away for a final drive on Okinawa s inner shun defense area. A Yona Baru and conical Hill chief remaining japanese observation Point fell yesterday to the 06th inf. Div. The Hill la w Yards from the Jap line guarding Shuri. Okinawa a second City. Two Rifle companies gained the 480-foot Summit late sunday and held k tenaciously despite Jap counter attacks. Yesterday the 383rd regt. Of the 86th completed the Hill s capture and paved the Way for a 1 1-3-mile Sain to Yona Baru fourth Okinawa Airfield captured by yanks. The jape now hold Only one air base on theft Flat do fight continues in Naha the sixth Marine div. Was fight ing in Northern Naha Island capital levelled by weeks of naval gunfire and artillery. The leathernecks still had to Croas tha Nasato a tvs a to reach the City s a ranking officer said breaching of the Shuri line would Climax the fight Ltd the threshold to Janan and the rest of Okinawa Campaign would be pull As fierce Batiles raged along the four mile line a battleship offshore pounded away at Shuri Castle one Marine observer reported 38 hits on the fortress but said shells seemed to Bounce off it like rubber balls. To the Center of the bloody front tanks and planes were supplying american troops. Enemy artillery and difficult terrain hampered truck movements. Japanese aircraft to renewed attacks sunday evening and monday damaged a major us. Fleet unit and two Light units at the coot of 46 Jap planes a eight of them continued on Page a of. The 50 to 70 German submarines reportedly on missions at the time Germany surrendered Only 34 have been accounted for a do. Max Horton commander of the West a approaches at Londonderry North Ireland reveals yesterday. It is possible Reuter news Agency quoted him As saying that some enemy underwater raiders might not have received instructions to surrender. Horton did not take into consideration the no Bre than 100 submarines found at bases on the French and norwegian coasts. The latest a boats to surrender eight in number arrived at Londonderry after making Contact with British Fleet units off Northern Scotland last week. A another put in at Dundee Scotland. Yields to canadians a on the other Side of the Atlantic the first German sub to surrender to a a Canadian forces arrived at Shelbourne Nova Scotia. The Raider came in flying the Mack hag of surrender escorted by two Canadian freighters. It was Learned that some Craft taken at norwegian Points were made of prefabricated materials. A Short but brisk Battle took place in Copenhagen yesterday when Crews of several German ships refused to surrender and were attacked by 130 Patriot fighters. One German was killed and several wounded before the German crewmen surrendered and turned their ships Over to the Danes. A Kymm 325 Mut Motobu Kawata London May 15 Cap a it. Gen. James h. Doolittle has relinquished command of the eighth air Force and will return to Washington for a new. Assignment possible or in the Pacific theater. Maj. Gen. William e. Kepner. Heretofore of of the eighths second air dtv., succeeded Doolittle As commander of the strategical air Force an official announcement disclosed last night. No glue the new Job the announcement gave no clue to the nature of Doolittle a new command but it was recalled that the general who led the first raid on Tokyo recently declared that hundreds of flying fortresses would augment super fortresses in attacking Japan on a scale that would overshadow the mows which devastated German Industry and knocked out the Luftwaffe. He predicted fleets of 2,060 super fortresses would Lead the assault on Japan. Doolittle a former service and apparent interest in the Pacific increased speculation that he will turn up in action against the japanese. It is known that some units of the eighth of Are destined to move directly to the Orient and there Are authentic reports that Okinawa will be a base for flying fortresses. Doolittle took command of the eighth of i january 1944. Pacific a Zzz Ocean Jug Cut Okinawa four of five airfields of Okinawa wore in . Hands last night with capture of Yona Baru binding Atrip by Tonth a my troops marinos wore fighting into Tho Canter of Naha Island capital and army doughs had mind conical Fli dominating Tho inner japanese defences at the enter of Tho body found by reds Floid units soon to cot . Typo boor and Cocos discovery of the body of nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels in a fantastic underground City beneath Berlin was reported yesterday by red Star in Moscow. The russian army newspaper said Goebbels committed suicide before a microphone and that beside him Lay bodies of his wife and children. Red Star discussed possibility the subterranean City might also yield the body of Adolf Hitler. Earlier the capture of Hans poem Bels 50-year-old brother of the dead propaganda minister was announced by the 94th inf. Div. Looks like brother resembling the propaganda minister Goebbels had nothing but Praise for Hitler brushed aside All theories that Germany would become democratic said it Quot will again become a great world Power under the same system Hitler brought into while the allies put out a dragnet for. Henrich. Himmier following persistent reports that the Gestapo chief was holed up near Flensburg in Denmark two persons identified themselves As his wife and daughter were captured by the fifth army s 88th inf. Div. In the italian Tyrol near Brenner get theater Choice Berlin s bunks factories open Paris May 15�?rubble-strewn Berlin was described yesterday As a City rapidly recovering from wounds inflicted upon it by Allied bombers and red army guns. Radio Moscow said residents were leaving cellars and underground hideouts and 2,000,000 persons now walk streets that a few weeks ago were deserted. Many factories already have resumed operations and others Are expected to be at work soon since soviet authorities Are taking Steps to insure that Normal supplies reach Berlin. Subway will begin operating May 25 and soon Street cars Are expected to run along berlins 12 most important routes Paris May 15-men who have higher than critical Point scores and who Volunteer to remain in Tho army May choose whether they stay in the Eto army of occupation or go to the Pacific la ool w. Of Hay of the Eto be deployment Branch said today we he added that men who had Tho required number of Points might to discharged Over hero if they Sot desired however any application for a discharge in the Eto must be sent to the War department fog approval and must then be cleared by the uj9. State department and by the government of the country in which the discharge is sought. The air forces will have a different critical score Hajt either Tho ground or service forces Hay said. Because of the air Force different system of giving Battle awards and because of different military requirements its critical store was expected to be higher 33,000 sex Pwns flown to us London May 15�?heavy bombers of the Raf and eighth air Force flew about 33,000 former american and British War prisoners out of Germany in the past week it was disclosed today. Fourteen thousand were removed to England. Monday. U s. Heavies flew to Barth on the Baltic sea Northwest of Berlin to pick up 7,000 american and 1,500 British prisoners from stalag Luft no. 9. The same Day approximately 240 British bombers returned More than 5.500 freed . Ike in London London May 15 Reuter a Gens. Eisenhower and Omar n. Bradley arrived Here by plane today from Germany. Of t 31 �?T4 7
