Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 6, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               S�i#5 the weather 1forecast for Nice Marseige area a wednesday continued fair maximum temperature. 80. .4 v Nice Marseille edition daily newspaper of . Armed forces vol. 1�?no. 85 wednesday june 6, 1945 european theater of operation r i in Al one franc piles of rubble. Neatly stacked by q. K. Hoo Enfield stars and stripes staff writer Normandy june 8�?che towns of Normandy still Are Licking their wounds months after the Battles that made them historical landmarks of the in. Vas ion of festing Europa. Gaping holes and piles of rubble that marked every Crossroads still Are to be found but the holes have been tidied up and the rubble now is neatly stacked. In Valones there is Only a vacant space where the Bank once stood. When the town was plastered by a Day bombs the Bank was wrecked and millions of francs were buried under the debris. Gutted buildings on both sides of Montero urge a wide main Street Are almost hidden by one Story wooden Frame buildings constructed of salvaged lumber to House the towns business firms. You still find the traffic bottleneck in St. Mete eglise that made the place such a nuisance to men continued on Page 8 Reich territory stashed Cheji. Ike confers in Berwin Washington june 5 cans a Germany a frontiers were Back today to the boundaries of dec. 31, 1937, joint statements from four Allied capitals setting up general occupation zones for the ., Russia Britain and France announced the Reich had been reduced to its4ceremonies out As Gas recall anther june 6 today is d-plus-305�?first anniversary of the greatest military assault in history and Allied Peoples throughout the world will pay private tribute to the men who risked or gave their lives on nor. Mandy 8 Omaha and Utah beaches. In Eto this is a Holiday for most soldiers but formal observances were ruled out by Gen. Eisenhower. All military personnel in Delta base Section except those handling essential jobs guard and fatigue will get the Day off according to the office of Brig. Gen. J. P. Ratay lbs commander. Most soldiers permanently assigned to the Surra will be off. A full program of sports is plan Ned for Marseille and its staging area. Hundreds of gis Are expected to visit the new Sand Beach at Lake de Berre 15 Miles North of Marseille. Man survives . Bridge leap new York june 5 ans a Norman Kupferberg of Brooklyn leaped 135 feet into the East River yesterday from the Middle Span of Manhattan Bridge and was rescued by a tugboat Crew. Police said he was one of the few persons to survive a leap from the Bridge geographical size before annexation of Austria and Czechoslovakia. Gen. Eisenhower flew to Berlin yesterday to attend the first meeting of the Allied control Council for Germany and to sign a four-4�wer declaration officially proclaiming Assumption of German government by the victorious Powers. Marshal Zhukov represented Russia Field marshal Montgomery Britain and Gen. Jean de latter de tas Signy prance the four occupational zones were announced formally As follows East to Russia Northwest to United kingdom Southwest to . And West to prance. Specific boundaries were no defined. 3,500 nurses will go Home Paris june 5�?approximately 3,500 of the 17,000 nurses in Eto will return to the us. For duty in army hospitals there the office of the Eto chief surgeon announced yesterday. Most nurses will know by Early july where the redeployment program will Send them. Reich Frontier mined London june 5 ins a Allied engineers have mined the Western Frontier of Germany to keep War criminals from slipping out of the Reich Absie reported today Naha Ai drome half captured Guam june 5 ans a u3. Troops today took half of the valuable Naha Ai drome on Okinawa a West coast secured most of the Chinen Peninsula on the East coast and advanced As much As three Miles to sweep Over much of the Jap held Island tip. Adm. Nimitz congratulated it. Gen. Simon b. Buckner. Tenth army commander for the manner in which his troops Hajje exploiting destruction of the enemy so a principal forces and positions on Okinawa. Sixth div. Marines who crossed Naha Harbor and landed on Oruku Peninsula ran into heavy mortar fire before winning the Northern half of Naha Airfield. The associated press reported us. Troops fighting for the air continued on Page 8 fire by  Guam june 5 Ansis nearly 500 super fortresses today dropped 3,300 tons of fire bombs on a ten Square mile Section of Kobe Japan s sixth City and the enemy radio reported the Eastern part of the Industrial Center in flames six hours later. The b39s fought through a screen of fighters and accurate anti aircraft fire to deliver their third blow to Kobe 360 Miles Southwest of Tokyo. Brig. Gen. Orval r. Cook today predicted that 1,000-plane fleets of the big bombers would dump 10,080-ton cargoes on japanese cities before the end of 1945. Japs new planes outclass corsairs aboard adm. Mcc ainu a flag8hxp, Ryukyu june 3 delayed up a american Carrier pilots returning from a sunday attack against Kyushu today reported that they encountered expert Jap pilots flying new planes which outperformed even american corsairs. Quot the japs thumbed their nose at us a one Pilot said