Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               Thursday May 17, 1945 the stars and stripes by . Curtails plane production a a i. F a in View of changing War needs in the heavy bomber class the aah listed the b17 flying fortress and the b24 Liberator. Both Are four engined weight 30 tons have speeds of about 306 . And can operate at 30,000 feet. Twelve or More. 50 a amp a. Machine guns Arm the lib the latest forts have 13. In the medium bomber class the aah boasted of the b2s Mitchell and b26 marauder. In the related Light bomber bracket the havoc and invader shared the spotlight with the a36. Developed from the p51 Mustang fighter. The Mitchell which can carry a 77mm Cannon and 14 a0 Cal. Machine guns was rated As the most heavily armed plane. The new invader with a series of interchangeable plexiglass noses mounts different combinations of 20, 37 and 75mni Cannon As Well As a0 Cal. Machine guns. Ten types of fighter planes were listed led by the p38 lightning p47 Thunderbolt and p51 Mustang. One of the newer types was the King Cebra a heavier and More powerful version of the air cobra. In the special fighter class the aah listed the p61 Black widow and the Pton the latter a twin engined Job developed from the havoc Light bomber. The p70, with an announced Speed of 325 m.ph., fires four 20mm Cannon mounted in its belly. The Black widow a night fighter carries four 20mm Cannon and four .50 Cal machine guns. Its flight characteristics Are secret. Still More secret than the p61 Are the air Comet and the shooting Star both Jet propelled however the air Comet already had been declared obsolete. The aah also noted its great Fleet of work planes cargo transports passenger liners helicopters Liaison and spotter Craft photo reconnaissance ships and gliders noting the High rate of obsolescence in air Foree planes the ans Survey pointed out that the High Cost in Materiel was paying off in the Quality of american warplanes. It said that since the War one out of every nine planes built in the  had become surplus either obsolete or too battered for economic repair ans said the surpluses were expected to increase sharply when the full american air might was hurled against Japan  Washington. May 16 ans a amp new air plane production schedule which virtually writes off aircraft production for Europe and which May reduce output by 2,000 planes monthly by december has been drafted by the army air forces and submitted to the we by a production readjustment committee for hip Reval associated press reported. Today. W a a except for two giant bombers the Boeing b29 super fortress and tip consolidated Voltee b32�? virtually All aah combat planes would be affected by the proposed one front schedule. However. A said some of the Cut backs were merely paper work and that the effect might not be Felt for Many months. With turning Points reached not Only in plane production but also i the functions of the aah which More and Mere will concentrate on Japan the Rainy news service surveyed the mushroom expansion program which in four years built the aah from a military Semi orphan into one of the world s greatest War machines. The War department disclosed the major components of this huge air Armada and some of its performance details. Leading the list As a very heavy bomber were the b32 and the much publicised b29 super fortress the 300-m.ph. And heavily armed plane specially built to Batter Japan from Distant bases. Capable of carrying a ten ton bomb Load on certain missions the super fort weighs 66 tons and can Fly above 35,000  Marseille clubs Abc can Ebler glob located at 98 la Cane Biere Abc times Square club located at Cours Joseph Thierry snack bar open from 1000 to 2100 hot showers. Barber shop sewing mending pressing game rooms and Reading and writing facilities. Daily Tours. Shews Abc theater. 138 la Cane Fere for uniformed personnel a my five shows Dally at two hour intervals starting at 1230.  again with Irene Dunn and Charles Boyer. Pori theater m Cours Belzunce. Daily movies at 1530, Foo and 1030. Open to All members of United nations armed forces nary theater Provence 2 blvd. Do la major one show Dally hour 1000. For  Navy personnel and their guests Nice Novlet forum theater. 46 promenade Des Langlais for armed forces Only. Stowing at 1400 and 2000. Admission is free. , Victory with All Star army cast plus sea food mamas. American red Croes the american red Cross Casino club located in the palais de la Meriter Ranea promenade Des Langlais snack bar open from 0900 to 240� daily  open from 0900 to 1730 daily wrapping package service from Ping Pong and Bowling. Information 0930 Dally lounge Reading and writing room Library game rooms with room open daily coca cola in the Bamboo room. Thurs at 1430. Gypsy music snack bar. At 2000. Dance partners provided. A the night of Jan. 16th. Greeting service  while you  shop located in the donate bldg ave. Thiers. For american enlisted men. Special Mevie Quot two Down and one to go a most talked about movie Ever made by the War department will be shown at the forum theater beginning thurs May 17 at 0900 and every hour on the hour until 1600. Cannes shews Olympia theater. Rue do an Tibes.  Burma with Errol Flynn at 2wo hours. Uso show. Tennis ten Sis courts available daily at Carton and Cannes Lawn Tennis club professional instructors. By Jack Stinnett a writer Washington May 16�?in one Way or another this Story has been explored half a dozen times but it never has been told. It is the answer to what is going to be done about the thousands of boys buried in our cemeteries scattered All Over the world. So far that answer is simply nothing. For More than 25 years in seven cemeteries in France Belgium and England our dead of world War i have reposed in Little replicas of Arlington cemetery just across memorial Bridge in Virginia. These cemeteries Are now becoming numberless. In Hawaii there Are men who died at Pearl Harbor. There Are cemeteries on Wake Guam the Philippines Guadalcanal new Guinea two Jima and a score of other places in the Pacific. American soldiers Are buried in North Africa from the Gold coast to Cairo and across the Mediterranean from Sicily to Northern Italy and Southern France. From the Normandy beachhead to the Rhine and far beyond the lands is dotted with the Graves of our fighting men. So for these has been no More than suggestions that these bodies be returned to the United states for final burial after this War. There already have been Bills introduced to permit Gold Star parents and wives to visit these Graves once the world is at peace again. The final decision win be up to Congress. The War department will have no authority to do anything about it until Congress takes action. Apparently this is something the Public generally does no to understand for the office of the quartermaster general which has charge of our military cemeteries is becoming daily a greater and greater catch All for complaints from the relatives of men buried overseas. On the Home front its a different Story. In the last several congresses there have been Bills introduced to establish military cemeteries in almost every state territory and Possession. The latest of these is the inclusive Bill offered by rep. Chester e. Merrow  ties up All those that have gone before into a measure which would permit the Secretary of War to establish military cemeteries in every state territory or Possession with More than half a million population. No definite action has been taken yet on the cemeteries an foreign shores but an extensive research is being made and records kept of every grave. Even in the statistical minded . Army and Navy there will be Many unknown soldiers in this War. The brutal explosives of Modem warfare make that inevitable but neither army nor Navy is sparing any Effort to reduce the list of Quot missing in action Quot to an absolute minimum. Dear editor when the War against Japan is brought to a successful termination we Shah find cur country in the Middle of two extremes on one Side there will be great material a debt so huge that the human mind is incapable of comprehending the figure. This debt is a strange thing for it can make us very poor despite the aforementioned riches which will be ours at the end of the War. If we Are Wise if our legislative representatives and our economists Are Alert the resources of America do not need be shackled to the debt throughout this War we have heard that we Are fighting so that our children and our children a children could have a legacy of Freedom. Let us bequeath to them most of the financial headaches for that Freedom. It would be foolish indeed to try to do business As usual and defray the National debt at prewar Speed or to think of balancing a National budget anytime within the next five centuries. Alter All Money is Only a claim on wealth America possesses the real wealth in its Earth and in its citizens. A pvt n. A m. Pup tent poets habits of War persist in Nice the Riviera changes things As any fool can see for Here the common Quot Doggie can at last be free How similar Are our habits after Freedom comes we seek the same old byways. A. All for you baby wealth machines of production expanded through the War Effort lots of know How growing out of wartime experiments. There will be american manpower and our natural resources. All these things should augur a Fuu Rich life for us. On the other hand there win be Chevalier dear editor reminiscing Over Public opinion and How hastily and irrationally it is formed. I Felt mingled feelings of pleasure and Relief to read that the inimitable Chevalier was Well and eager to entertain his Continental audiences. As with Lew ares and Flynn the Public was too eager to condemn before the facts were available. A sgt. A b. 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George Mclaughlin Atta girls dear editor i have seen reference in Prim to the Atta girls what Are they a pvt. Harry r. Holsneck they Are British women members of the air transport  editor