Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 5, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               The  j. Forecast for Nice Marsette area tuesday continued fair maximum temperature 78. Nice Marseille edition Pally newspaper of . Armed in the european theater of operations vol. In no. 84tuesday, june 5, 1945 one franc putting heat on Okinawa enemy supported by flame throwing tank marines Advance on holed up japanese. Marine combat photographer was wounded immediately after he took this picture. After 68 Days main enemy line was broken by leathernecks and doughs. Drive to Clear Okinawa is under Way now blast kills 15 in Bremen my Bremen june 4 apr two mysterious explosions wrecked the . Military government police Headquarters Here today killing at least 15 americans and germans and injuring 88. Maj. Russel Kenedy Public safety officer believed the blast was caused by a delayed action bomb. The four Story Brick building which formerly housed is detachments and police Headquarters was shattered As if hit by a blockbuster shortly before 11 am. Two Walls collapsed. Rubble continued to explode for a half hour. German ammunition stored on the ground floor kept exploding while German firemen fought flames. First Eto was go Home in july Paris june 4�?some Eto was will be homeward bound for discharge a a probably in july a it. Col. Anna c. Wilson wac chief in the Eto said today. They will include possessors of 44 Points or More was 40 years of age and older and those about to leave the service because their husbands have been discharged. Col Wilson said that theoretically All was with critical scores of 44 and above could be declared essential and kept Here since wac strength in the Eto is below the 10.800 quota. 10th army men a Lecyr big port a dead husband Back with wife weather ends strike of pcs port Douglas Utah june 4 ans a pour Days of intermittent rain yesterday forced a a unconditional surrender of 184 striking italian prisoners of War who had been sleeping in tents and eating bread and water since wednesday. The men struck last wednesday because they worked longer hours than civilian employees. Port officials confined them to Field tents until the weather and hunger changed their minds. Jermy to run 2 colleges 2,000 unit schools in Eto sheaf june 4�?the army a educational program for the Eto the biggest Ever undertaken abroad by the ., was announced today by Gen. Eisenhower. Designed for officers Ems and was the program Wilt enable them to 1. Attend two great army colleges one at Shrivenham eng., and the other on the continent. 2. Take courses of their own choosing at Britain a Oxford and Cambridge universities and sorbonne University at Paris. 3. Learn a wide Range of skills in a centralized army vocational school. 4. Study in the army a system of correspondence schools. A no miracles a Eisenhower unit schools will set up in each battalion or comparable unit. Eisenhower said the program would not be permitted to delay the return of any Soldier or unit to the states. Quot we Are not proposing to work  he said. Quot we intend simply to do everything we can to assist the american Soldier in preparing himself to meet the new Challenge of civilian  charged with supervising the program under Gen. Eisenhower is col. Paul w. Thomson chief of the information and education dtv., who led the sixth Engineer special continued on Page 8 Portsmouth Ohio june 4�? it. Harold w. Goad was Back today with his pretty blonde wife who had married a Navy Ensign four months after the War department reported the army flyer was dead. Quot its swell to be Back a said goad 27, who survived 18 months of near starvation in a japanese prison Camp near Rangoon. The wife Helen 23, arrived Here three weeks ago from Long Beach calif., where she had married Ensign Robert a. Mcdowell. Goad arrived Here yesterday. Shipbuilders strike new Orleans june 4 api nine thousand employees of Higgins industries inc., manufacturer of Landing Craft and other War products went on strike today. Guam june 4 ans a american troops today drove two Miles southward along Okinawa a East coast moved within 500 Yards of the Island s Southeast beaches and Cut off the Chinen Peninsula to dominate a Amagusuku Harbor one of the Best in the Ryukyu Chain. Japanese broadcasts reported new american landings at Vakinov and Hana on Southern Okinawa indicating the enemy there was bottled up Reuter reported a Amagusuku formerly used by the japanese Fleet had been opened to the All ies. Use of its facilities would Speed construction of Inland air bases japanese planes attacked . Shipping. In Okinawa Waters for the first time in five Days adm. Nimitz announced without mentioning damage. Twenty six raiders were -�?4 shot Down. It was the tenth army a seventh inf. Div. Which scored the outstanding ground gains. Troops in the Center of its front smashed ahead 3,800 Yards to Okinawa s Southeast coastal Plain near Shikiya. Left flank units sliced into Chinen Peninsula. On the West coast. Sixth div marines were preparing to smash at enemy positions on Oruku Peninsula site of Naha Airfield. In Tbs Center of Okinawa. 96th inf. Div. And first Marine div units gained up to 1.200 Yards Southeast of surf. Japanese in this area were blowing themselves up with grenades. Bomb Mikado Halsey urges aboard Halsey a flagship off Okinawa june 4 up it a adm. William f. Halsey commander of the third uj3. Fleet today advocated bombing emperor Hirohito a Palace in Tokyo. Quot i done to see How you can draw a line Between Homes Humble or palatial a Halsey told reporters Quot the emperor. Should pay for impersonating  As for the japanese Navy Halsey said his plans called for Quot knocking the hell out of them wherever we find  he admitted enemy suicide plane tactics were a threat but declared they had failed and were Quot just a damned nuisance rather than a  Haislip named army chief seventh army hq., june 4�? it. Gen. Wade h. Haislip has assumed command of the seventh army replacing it. Gen. Alexander m. Patch it was announced yesterday. No mention was made of what patches new assignment would by Rome one year and a War go by George Tucker Paris june 4 apr yanks of Gen. Mark Wayne Clarks fifth army slugged their Way into Rome a year ago today in one of the great victories of the War. Rome was the first great Axis capital to fall and the reception Given to the troops by upwards of 2,000,000 suddenly emancipated civilians was second in enthusiasm Only to the delirious Welcome lavished on Allied troops in Paris a few months later. R o me c a m e gun. Frederick tumbling Down like London Bridge Only after american tanks crashed into Piazza Venezia where Mussolini a Balcony Hung mute and empty in the Pale Moonlight and Gen. Robert Frederickss riflemen exchanged final shots with nazi snipers in Grey Stone buildings surrounding the Square. Maj. Gen. Fredericks now commander of the 45th inf. Div., was a brigadier then in command of Tough Ranger like troops famed for their baggy pants and dirty faces on Anzio beachhead. His troops finally routed last ditch stand germans at the Gates of Rome on Highway 7, and i remember him in one unforgettable scene that hot sunday afternoon when he stood by the dust choked Roadside with his pants Down around his shoe tops making casual inspection of several flesh wounds while directing troops in the assault. A mile and a half Back near a farmhouse Gen. Clark his staff assorted Allied generals correspondents and pro officers waited impatiently for word to come that Rome had been taken. It Wasny to until the last handful of germans fled under cover of darkness that the army knocked the final Axis props from under the City and rolled into Rome. Sniper fire kept civilians behind doors until Dawn. Then they simply erupted into the streets smothering doughboy under a deluge of kisses tears and Flowers. Most of us said in our dispatches that Day that the doughboy had captured Rome but actually it was the other Way around. Fitting a or Lavt Manila june 4 ans �?. Forces on Mindanao Island advanced in All Active sectors today and on Luzon pushed a Milt farther into Bagayan Valley in Pursuit of japanese units retreating on horseback. Gen. Macarthur announced that 6,556 japanese dead were counted last week. Enemy dead and missing in the Philippines total 880.480, he said. Northwest of Davao capital of Mindanao 84th inf. Div. Troops chased japs from uneaten meals. A trap was being set for these and other Jap forces in the Central part of the Island. Carriers hit suicide bases Guam june 4 ans a Carrier aircraft of the third us. Fleet struck again at japanese suicide plane bases on Southern Kyushu Island but destroyed Only nine enemy planes. Tokyo radio today said the entire japanese naval air corps had been converted into suicide plane squadrons for use against Allied warships aussie brides divorces Melbourne Australia june 4 ans a several brides of american servicemen Here Are going to the us. Solely to divorce their husbands they disclosed before departure. Most of them complained that their husbands had not written them for months or had written of finding american girls they preferred