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   Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 06, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d Azur                                Wea Thop for fair edition the stirs an daily of Blue coast final 85 fore f june 1945 one franc ceremonies out As gis recall 6 piles neatly stacked is anniversary of the greatest military assault in Allied peo Ples throughout the world will a private tribute to the men who risked or gave their lives on nor Mandys Omaha and Utah in this is a Holiday for most but formal observances were ruled out by All military personnel in Delta base except those handling essential guard and will get the Day according to the office of lbs most soldiers permanently As signed to the Surra will be a full program of sports is plan Ned for Marseille and its staging hundreds of gis Are expected to visit the new Sand Beach at Lake de 15 Miles North of by Hoo Enfield and stripes staff writer june 5che towns of Normandy still Are Licking their months after the Bat Les that made them historical landmarks of the in Vasion of Pestun gaping holes and piles of rubble that marked every Are to be but the holes have been tidied and the rubble now is neatly in Valones there is Only a vacant space where the Reich territory Ike confers in Berlin june 5 frontiers were i pulled Back today to the boundaries of joint statements from four Allied setting up general occupation zones for the Britain announced the Reich had been reduced to its geographical size before annexation of Austria and Eisenhower flew to Berlin Bank once when the town was plastered by Day the Bank was and of francs were buried under the gutted buildings on both sides of Montero rugs wide main Street Are aimed hidden by one Story wooden Frame buildings constructed of salvaged lumber to House the towns business you still find the traffic bottleneck in Mere eglise that made the place such a nuisance to men continued on Page 8 fires set by Man survives Bridge leap new june 5 ans Norman of leaped 135 feet into the East River yesterday from the Middle Span of Manhattan Bridge and was rescued by a tugboat police said he was one of the few persons to survive a leap from the Bridge yesterday to attend the first meet ing of the Allied control Council for and to sign a four wer declaration officially pro claiming Assumption of German government by the victorious pow marshal Zhukov represented Field marshal and Jean de latter de the four occupational zones were announced formally As follows East to Northwest to United Southwest to and West to specific boundaries were defined nurses will go Home june of the nurses in Eto will return to the for duty ii army hospitals the office o the Eto chief announced most nurses will know by Early july where the redeployment pro Gram will Send Naha Ai drome half captured Reich Frontier mined june 5 Allied engineers have mined the Western Frontier of Germany to keep War criminals from slipping out of the Alusie today june 5 ans troops today took half of the Valu Able Naha Ai drome on Okinawa West 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 Nimitz congratulated Simon tenth army for the manner in which his troops Are exploit ing destruction of the enemy principal forces arid positions sixth marines who crossed Naha Harbor and landed on Oruku ran into heavy mortar fire before winning the Northern half of Naha the associated press reported troops fighting for the air continued on 8 june 5 nearly 500 super fortresses to Day dropped of Fife bombs on a  Section of japans sixth and Hie enemy radio re ported the Eastern pan of the Industrial Center in hours the Ftfe fought through a screen of fighters and accurate antiaircraft fire to deliver their third mow to 260 Miles Southwest of Orval Cook today predicted that fleets of big bombers would dump ton cargoes on japanese cities be fore the end of japs new planes outclass corsairs aboard Mccain june 3 delayed clip Rier returning from a Sun Day attack against to Day reported that they encountered expert Jap pilots flying new planes which outperformed even american the japs thumbed their nose at one Pilot  
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