Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 05, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d Azur                                For continue Cal edition daily of Btu i coast final 84 june 1945 oni franc putting of Fen tin Okinawa supported by flame throwing marines Advance on Holdup Marine combat photographer was wounded immediately after he took this after 60 main enemy line was broken by leathernecks and drive to Clew Okinawa is under Way blast kills 15 in Bremen my june 4 mysterious explosions wrecked the military government police Headquarters Here killing at least americans and germans and injuring Russel Public safety believed the blast was caused by a delayed action the four Story Brick formerly housed is detach ments and police was shattered As if hit by a blockbuster shortly before 11 two Walls rubble continued to explode for a half German ammunition stored on the ground floor kept exploding while German firemen fought army to run 2 unit schools in Eto june army educational program for the the biggest Ever undertaken abroad by the was announced today by Gen designed for Ems and the program will enable them to attend two great army one at the other on the take courses of their own choosing at Britain Oxford and Lamb Ridge universities and Sor Bonne University at learn a wide Range of skill Ruymen Clear big port japs raid ships f Iii inn in june 4 troops today drove two Miles southward along Okinawa East moved within 500 Yards of the islands Southeast beaches and Cut off the Chinen Peninsula to dominate a Amagusuku one of the Best in the Ryukyu japanese broadcasts reported new american landings at Vakinov and Hana on Southern indicating the enemy there was bottled Reuter reported formerly used by the Japa Nese had been opened to the use of its facilities would Speed construction of Inland air japanese planes attacked shipping in Okinawa Waters for the first time in five Nimitz announced without mentioning Twenty six raiders were bomb Halsey urges dead husband Back with wife first Eto was go Home in july june Eto was will be homeward bound for Dis charge probably in Anna wac chief in the said they will include possessors of 44 Points or was 40 years of age and and those about to leave the service because their Hus bands have been 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 june Harold 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 its swell to be said who survived 18 months of near starvation in a japanese prison Camp near the arrived Here three weeks ago from Long where she had married Ensign Robert goad arrived Here shipbuilders strike new june 4 a nine thousand employees of Higgin manufacturer of Landing Craft and other War pro went on strike in a centralized army vocational study in the army system of correspondence unit schools will fish set up in each battalion or comparable Eisenhower said the program would not be permitted delay the return of any Soldier or unit to the we Are not proposing to work he we intend simply to do everything we can to assist the american Soldier in pre paring himself to meet the new Challenge of civilian charged with supervising the program under Eisenhower is Paul chief of the information and education who led the sixth Engineer special continued on Page 8 aboard Halsey flagship off june 4 up William com Mander of the third today advocated bombing emperor Hirohito Palace in i dont see How you can draw a line Between Humble or Halsey told the emperor should pay for impersonating As for the japanese Halsey said his plans called for knocking the hell out of them wherever we find he admitted enemy suicide plan tactics were a threat but declared they had failed and were just a damned nuisance rather than a Haislip named 7th army chief seventh army june Wade Haislip has assumed command of the seventh replacing Alexander it was announced no was made of what Patch new assignment would it was the tenth army seventh which scored the outstanding ground troops in the Center of its front smashed ahead Yards to Okinawa Southeast coastal Plain near left flank units sliced into Chinen on the West marines were preparing to smash at enemy positions on Oruku pen site of Naha in the Center of 96th and first Marine div units gained up to Yards Southeast of Shuri japanese in this area were blowing themselves up with fleeing jape leave meal june 4 forces on Mindanao Island advanced in All Active sectors today and on Luzon pushed a mile into Bagayan Valley in Pur suit of japanese units retreating on Macarthur announced that japanese dead were counted last enemy dead and missing in the Philippines total he Northwest of capital of 24th troops chased japs from uneaten a trap was being set for these and other Jap forces in the Central part of the one year and a War ago weather ends strike of pcs port june 4 Days of intermittent rain yesterday forced unconditional surrender of 184 striking italian prisoners of War who had been sleeping in tents and eating bread and water since the men struck last wednesday because they worked longer hours than civilian port officials confined them to Field tents until the weather and hunger changed their by George Tucker june 4 of Mark Wayne Clarks fifth army slugged their Way into Rome a year today in one of the great victories of the Rome was the first great Axis capital to fall and the reception Given to the troops by upwards of Sud Denly emancipated civilians was second in enthusiasm Only to the delirious Welcome lavished on Allied troops in Paris a few months Rome came Fredericks tumbling Down like London Bridge Only after american tanks crashed into Piazza where Musso Linis Balcony Hung mute and empty in the Pale and Robert Fredericks riflemen exchanged final shots with nazi snip ers in Grey Stone buildings sur rounding the now com Mander of the 45th was a brigadier then in command of Tough Range like troops famed for their baggy pants and dirty faces on Anzio his troops finally routed last ditch stand germans at the Gates of Rome on Highway and i re member 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 of several flesh wounds while directing troops in the As a mile and a half near a his assorted Allied correspondents and pro officers waited impatiently for word to come that Rome had been it want 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 sniper fire kept civilians behind doors until then they simply erupted into the smothering doughboy under a deluge of tears and most of us said in our dispatches that Day that the doughboy had captured but actually it was the other Way carriers hit suicide bases june 4 aircraft of the third Fleet struck again at japanese suicide plane bases on Southern Kyushu but destroyed Only nine enemy Tokyo radio today said the entire japanese naval air corps had been converted into suicide plane squadrons for use against Allied aus Slif brides Waht divorces june 4 brides of american servicemen Here Are going to the solely to divorce their Hus they disclosed before de most of them complained that their husbands had not written them for or had written of finding american girls they pre