Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 23, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               Discharged vet Waits four Days to buy civilian suit if he Ever loses it it can be Force. To keep it up he will have by or. Ben Price former s and 8 staff writer new York june been n week since Bob Smith of Brooklyn stopped saluting and began living As a civilian. During that time Smith has been very Busy doing Little things that every Veteran should or must do when he is discharged taking it easy and grimly answering that question Quot How does it feel to get out 8mitty?&Quot of course Smith answers everyone Quot wonderful Quot or Quot have you Ever been in the army Quot pvt Robert Smith formerly of the 12th combat eng. Bn., eighth inf. Div., spent the first Day after his discharge at it. Dix with his family and friends. Next Day Smith shopped with his wife at the grocer. His wife told him Quot you can t buy a thing these Days Robert. On sunday Smith still wearing his uniform with the yellow Patch Over his right breast signifying that he was discharged went to a Ball game. Monday he bought White shirts a tropical worsted suit and assorted ties. Tuesday Smith wore his civilian suit As he watched Gen. Eisenhower in the Parade. Later that Day Smith went to the opa to pick up his ration books. His wife needed the food Points and he needed the shoe stamp. On wednesday Smith took his discharge Down to the county clerk to have it recorded so that replaced. He also bought for 50 cents a photostatic copy. That s All Smith has done to following is one of a series of article by a stare and Stripe staff writer who covered discharge of the first Large group of Over is pointers from the Eton by Ben Price stars and stripes staff writer became civilian 0400 get thursday Stop regards to you unlucky Guys Ben Price Date but there Are other things hell have to do later. Hell probably want to keen his National service life insurance in to pay the premiums direct to the veterans administration. He can convert his i insurance into Ordinary life insurance 20 pay ment life or 30-payment life. The soldiers and sailors civil Relief act protects servicemen and women up to six months after discharge by making it possible for the courts to suspend enforcement of certain civil liabilities during that time. For information on taxes the Veteran should go to the collector of internal Revenue. His own state tax commission will answer other questions. He should keep his records up to Date. Most important records Are an discharge papers disability claim number insurance policies social Security card birth certificate will and selective service registration card. If he wants the Joh tee had before entering the a Wiki he must apply to his former employer in person or in writing within 40 Days after his discharge. He must also be ready to report for work within 40 Days. If the Veteran has difficulty getting  Job Back he should go to the re employment committeeman attached to his local draft Board. Suppose a Veteran wants a new Job he can Tell that to the reemployment committeeman Toa or apply to the u.8. Employment service. A Veteran temporarily out of a Job can get unemployment pay from the Federal government. The weather forecast for Nice Marseille area a saturday Marseille dear Nice partly Cloudy Tern. Pesature 80. A a a forecast by Mart Naae Airport Jap weather station a a a a a vol. In no. 102 one year ago Toov first army captured of Toffee Manvique hang overlooking Cherbourg. 23, 1945one franc last big a a a it Arsenal blasted by b2w my Okinawa s Cost a record Bat enemy Tost 13 Lor 1 Guam june 22 ans a thirteen japanese were killed for every american killed or missing in the Okinawa ground fighting adm. Nimitz announced toddy As tenth army soldiers and marines mopped up the two enemy pockets left Over from the 82-Day Campaign that proved the costliest in the Pacific. U.8. Casualties through tuesday totalled 6,990 killed or missing and 29,598 wounded. Japanese dead counted through wednesday totalled 90,41 1, while More than 4,000 surrendered or were captured. Japanese air attacks on american shipping off the 85-Square-mile Island Sank 31 vessels mostly Small units and damaged 54 others including four Large ships. The japs lost 4,096 planes Over Okinawa. Vehicles carry guards cleanup of the japanese Garrison has been concentrated so Long at the Southern tip of the 70-mile-Long Island that Back areas have been thoroughly developed though american vehicles still travel with armed guards. Adm. Nimitz cited these Points of Okinawa s strategic value it gives the . A base for Supply and for fighter and bomber Oover for invasions of China or Japan or both. It affords a a naval base and Anchorage. It is a Forward staging area. It is important As a base for additional War attrition in which continued on Page 8 medics escape critical Label Paris june 22�?good news for 68,000 medical and surgical technicians in the Eto came from com z today with the disclosure that they no longer Are classified As critical specialists and May be released from this theater for discharge if they have 85 or More Points. A series of jobs for those eligible for discharge under the. Point system or because of age and who Don t want to sweat out waiting for transportation Home before they become civilians was announced by the United nations Relief and rehabilitation administration. An Urra representative will be in the adjutant general Section of Delta base Section from june 25 to july 9 to interview applicants. War loan Coal reached Washington june 22 ans a the 14 billion Dollar goal of the seventh War loan was passed yesterday. Admiral Nimitz Okinawa a Welcome base mystery bomb sinks . Ship Washington june 22 ans a twin blows by a Jap suicide plane and Quot Baka bomb Quot Sank the  destroyer Abele off Okinawa april 12. The Navy department disclosed today. A the sinking was the first announced instance of one of the mysterious Baka Bomba hitting an american ship. Casualties were 81 dead and 32 wounded. First blow came from the suicide plane a single engined Zeke fighter which ploughed into the ship s starboard Side penetrating the deck to the after engine room. The plane s bomb exploded inside the vessel breaking its Shaft and keel Baka described about a minute later a Baka came skimming above the water at More than 400  it crashed into the ship at the starboard waterline in the Vicinity of the Forward firs room. 5 plane works also struck by supers Guam Une 22 it an in four Hundred and fifty Mori Anas based super fortresses dealt Japan a Industry its third heavy blow in a week today when they dropped 3,000 tons of explosives on the kure naval Arsenal and five aircraft plants in four cities on Honshu Island. The kure Arsenal with on area of 11,000,000 Square feet was Japan s last Large ordnance Plant. It makes torpedoes guns and shells up to 16 inches. Kure a City of 262,000, lies in the Western part of Japan s Inland sea. Nagoya Kobe satellites aircraft plants pounded today were the Mitsubishi and Kawasaki factories at Kagam Gahara 20 Miles North of Nagoya the Kaw Eji and the Kawashi air Cfaft Plant Anis i Navy aircraft Plant at him at Tamashima 90 Miles West of Kobe. Twenty first bomber command he. Here reported b29 raids have burned out and destroyed i Square Miles of enemy Urban Industrial centers. Eighth to Uso bits Washington june 22 ans a it. Gen. James h. Doolittle will leave soon for the Pacific theater where his eighth of will employ super fortresses against Japan. The eighth now being redeployed from the Eto will operate independently of the Overall Pacific command of Gen Mac Arthur and adm. Nimitz. The Baka which had been thought to be a human Pik it ted projectile launched from a plane was described by eyewitnesses As a Low mid Wing monoplane with rounded Wing tips. The fuselage was Oval streamlined and tapered at the Bow. Eyewitnesses said they saw neither Pilot nor cockpit in the Brief glimpse before it hit the ship. Aussies imm Borneo Oil site Manila june 22 cans a australian troops liberators of Northern Borneo have made another almost unopposed amphibious Landing Southwest of their original invasion Points around Brunei Bay. Gen. Macarthur announced today. Ninth div. Quot diggers Quot went ashore at Luton refinery Center of the seria and Miri Oil Fields of Sarawak an Independent state under British Protection lying along Borneo s Northwest coast. The latest aussie move put the continued on Page 8 reparations croup a London june 22 Reuter a the first session of the inter Allied reparations commission under soviet chairmanship was held in Moscow yesterday. Olympia wash., june 22 ans a president Truman said today Gen. Eisenhower was entitled to anything he. Wanted adding that he would see that the general got it. Eisenhower s first Job is to get Back to Germany and finish his work there the president said. He said he did not know How Long Eisenhower would be there stating that was one of the things to be settled at the forthcoming big three conference. The president said he had no plans concerning proposals to lower the Soldier discharge age asserting that was strictly a military matter in which be would not interfere. A aps Given 18 months Honolulu june 22 ans a Henry Luce publisher of time said on his return from a five week tour of the Pacific that preparations Are under Way Quot to assure Victory in 18 months or  division by Ernie Leiber. Stars and stripes staff writer twelfth army up hq., june 22�?an arrangement Between russian and . Corps commanders on american evacuation of soviet occupation territory in Germany has been reached officials Here said today and there were indications the knotty problem of occupation zone boundaries has been solved. The us. Withdrawal from the russian zone was to have begun yesterday but was delayed. It is to be completed nine Days after movement begins French zone disclosed signs of More definite delineation of the occupation districts were seen in disclosure $ that Frances zone is expected to include the lower half of Rhine province the Saarland rhenish palatinate most of Baden and a narrow corridor through Wurtemburg and Bavaria to Vor Arlberg in Western Austria. The russians already have revealed their zone extends to the Western boundaries of Mecklenburg and Thuringia. 8fxtti Arr red. To . Of the dozen . Divisions East of the probable . Zone seven Are affected by the Russo american agreement two the sixth army. And the 30th inf., will be redeployed this summer. The sixth army. Will be shipped to the states where it will be decided whether to disband it or hold it in strategic Reserve. Truman to Ike a just name it redeploy timetable covering ten dive. Paris june 22�?this Box score showing the status of redeployed divisions was issued today by com z. 1 97th inf., on the sea heckled for Home. Eighth inf., scheduled to embark at be Havre june 27 and 28. 95th inf., leaving from be Havre today. 104th inf., will embark about june 26. 87th inf., processing at Camp Oklahoma City near Soissons for july shipment. Fourth inf., moving into be Havre in preparation for embarkation Early in july i second inf., scheduled to Arlye today at macs Camp Norfolk near Mazuy for july shipment. Fifth inf., scheduled to arrive today at Aach scamp St. Louis near Mour Melon for july shipment. 44th inf., processing at a a for july shipment. 13th armd., scheduled to arrive at Aach scamp Atlanta shortly for july shipment. By Hugh Conway stars and stripes staff writer Assembly area command Rheims june 22�?advance columns of the fifth inf. Div., oldest overseas outfit on the continent rolled into Camp St. Louis today while the final units of the second inf. Div. Pulled into Camp Norfolk. Both will be redeployed to the Pacific by Way of the . The fifth div. Went overseas to Iceland in sept. 1941 and first hit the Normandy beachhead on d plus 33. Of the next 300 Days 277 were spent in Contact with the enemy. Only a handful of the original red Diamond doughs Are still with the outfit the rest have been reassigned to await discharge in the states. The second div. Fought its Way ashore at Normandy on d plus one protected the left flank of the third army in the breakthrough at St to and swung southward to bottle up thousands of nazis at Brest. Turning East the Indian head crossed the Roer pushed to the Rhine hurdles the River and drove to Leipzig where it assisted in capturing that key communications Center. Then it pressed on to liberate czech Pilsen. Troops Detrain in strike area i a Quot a Chicago june 22 ans a thousands More soldiers poured into Chicago yesterday to haul food and vitally needed goods As a strike of truck Drivers went into its seventh Day. The 262nd Field artillery arrived wednesday from Camp Shelby miss., while the 134th Field artillery Veteran of the Pacific in route to the East coast was detained. These men were in addition to the 7,200 soldiers Pready on duty driving or guarding trucks in the City. 5th, 2nd dive. In Mac games