Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 12, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d Azur Edition the f Are it Maxi mum coast final 9 1945 of franc be my 9tljffi in a in in by bar i Imam a Mimi june com Bat infantryman the Silver and insignia of the paratroops and glider troops will continue to bring their holders extra even though the War in Europe is com z said expectation at com z fiscal office was that extra pay would continue at least for the duration plus there Are cases where combat pay might if an enlisted Man holding a combat infantry mans which carries a Bonus of a should Transfer to the medical he would lose his combat How transfers work if he should Transfer to the air forces and be placed on flight he would lose his combat infantry but would receive a fliers if he were transferred to the air forces but not on flight he would continue to receive combat infantryman fliers will continue to draw their Bonus of 50 percent of base pay if they have the required amount of flying this is either four hours of flying a month or ten flights a totalling at least three the flights need not be combat members of airborne units will continue to draw extra pay so Long As they remain in airborne even though they make no Para Chute jumps or glider in the enlisted men get a Bonus of a and officers in the glider the extra pay is 50 percent of base not exceeding a month for enlisted men or for june 11 nazi plot to blow up the Gatun dam of the Panama canal was disclosed yesterday by an Irish Soldier liberated from a German prison Thomas of who was captured by the nazis in 1940 while serving with the British said he was asked to Lead a group of Irish prisoners on a sabotage expedition to the dam after he pretended he was a nazi sym the nazis he to take saboteurs to the canal by sub gushing said he revealed the plan to another irishman who was being trained by the nazis for sabotage in hoping he could report the plot to the War the plan was detected when they discussed it on the Send personal Petain claims clothes Churchill saw pointers told armistice Case Eto yanks fired billion rounds june the 11 months and few Days Between d Day and troops in the Eto fired More than rounds of Small arms and Tiore than rounds of artillery Henry Eto chief Ord Nance announced the multimillion Dollar Hail of steel and explosives reached its Peak in december and january during the Battle of the almost on third of the ammunition expended by artillery was fired by 105 which Saylor called the Workhorse of the Artil the Volumn fired by these howitzers was weighing Monty gets dam for Day plans june 11 marshal sir Bernard l Montgomery was decorated with the distinguished service medal highest award for meritorious by Eisenhower during an informal ceremony at the supreme commanders head quarters making the award in the name of president Truman read the citation Montgomery was in direct command of the Allied armies in the initial assault on the Normand beaches Success was in Large measure due to the careful planning and training under his by Ben Price stars and stripes staff writer june to Eto soldiers sweating out Point discharges if you have personal bought or Send it Home before you Start demobilization otherwise you will have to argue with Supply sergeants All along the who will insist it belongs to the you Are supposed to wind up with two the other Supply sergeants Are very stubborn permanent party eyes loot another thing hold on to your make sure you follow the army instructions and Register it with the proper dont let anyone take it away from you along the lots of souvenir hungry characters will the 153 12th army combat men going through final discharge processing Here would have been spared Many headaches had some one Given them the 3 stay for pensions the less than yester Day after three regular army men waived discharge in order to serve a couple More years and get a pen today they would have to wait five Days at most before getting the greeter at the initial receiving Point of this separation Center blamed the delay on an overflow of potential Dis charges and to a shortage of experienced processing the entire group went through the receiving building today and each Man checked his service rec Ord and Allied All were in june Henri Philippe testifying today before the investigation commis Sion of the French High declared he requested an armistice with Germany As the Only Way to preserve the armistice prevented France from becoming another he asked whether it was in keeping with Frances obligations to Britain that no separate peace would be Petain replied that prime minister Winston Churchill had told him on june 1940 near Tours that England would not abandon an unhappy ally even if she asks for fostered resistance Petain said he always had favored the resistance movement and declared he used Pierre Vichy to Calm the Ger mans half million men Joseph St twill they will use any methods aussies invade North Borneo Petain called the armistice a since it assured the Liberty of hundreds of thousands of soldiers who would have been made it secured the existence of a free the integrity of the French Empire and favored the Landing of it also secured existence of a French government authority who has been Able to protect today hearing was the final preliminary to his treason Date and place of which have not been Raf Cut by a third june 11 rap will demobilize a third of its be million men and women during he next it was disclosed forty percent of the remainder will go to the Harry Hopkins leaves France june Hopkins and his wife left Here by plane apparently bound straight for where he will re port to president Truman on the results of his discussion with mar Shal Stalin in it was stated that Hopkins did not see Charles Degaulle during his week l end Stopover in june 11 Ralian troops of Macarthur making another big step toward Indochina and have landed on the West coast of Northern fighting Inland with Light the Landing were by the australian ninth broke ton and Maura in Brunei site of a japanese naval and on Labuan just off the coast the landings moved Allied troops to within 800 Miles North of Singa pore and 600 Miles East of the tip of Airfield captured the australians advanced Yards Inland on Borneo toward the town of Brunei while the Labuan Island invaders captured an air the seventh joined by units of the Royal australian Navy and fighters and bombers of the 13th of and the supported the the Brunei area is Rich in Iron and other establishment of air and naval facilities at Brunei combined with those in the would Complete a Chain of bases Miles Long from which Allied Aerial continued on to fire 8 in Homeland june 11 will take a Force of at least men to in Vade Japan and if the enemy continues the fight to Manchuria after the fail of their the War May last until the Middle of says Joseph the chief of army ground on a tour of Pacific said the Campaign for Okinawa a helluva Tough vinegar Joe took Issue with it widespread feeling i the the tit the War with Japan will be push that b20s will take care that Japan will give that the voice of the japanese people will be heard and such Slop a teak individual criterion i cant see when they Are to tenacious individually that we can expect a crack in their the he stated la that Jap suicide planes rear mfr 4 defeatist will is of have an even after a successful in Valiton of main japanese Iala cd and site of r Jap air june 11 fifth consecutive Day attacks on Tfaye Jaluf Tefre was reported to play by which said 80 Mustangs led b298 lived air in the and Yokohama reconnaissance photos Days attack by Orts showed the Glne ering works roads at struck by 830 High exp an american communique suits at four other targets Ware ported by but were Tot enemy shot Revei and nine million Dollar fire in Pennsylvania t one super fort Okinawa based separate Over ipes for vets june 11 ans wounded veterans who want them May obtain Veteran War dogs for the army announced Dago longer amiable for combat Are being to convalescent As for a bagged 17 Jap bringing total to at least 43 for one Light naval unit sunk off Okinawa yesterday 9ft Kamikaze suicide pm Loti turned for the third Friday they lost 12 planes a six More were japanese killed in week june 11 thousand japanese were killed or captured in the Philippines last Macarthur communique said casualties were announced As 172 wounded and four total enemy casualties in the philippine Campaign were area in Mahanoy business District was levelled by three How Blaze 50 Feyt is families homely damage was estimated at million Spain denies Hiher there june 11 Spanish foreign office today denied that Hitler was hiding in a spokesman said that the Spanish under its announced policy in connection with War would have the allies immediately if hitter ha4 requested Refuge in
