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GROUP TO RULE REICH CALLED; FIGHTING SPREADS IN SYRIA; U.S. FLAG IS HOISTED IN SHURI (5/31/45)
Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 5/31/45 | Drew Middleton, Clifton Daniel, A.C. Sedgwick, Bruce Rae, W.H. Lawrence, Sydney Gruson

Posted on 05/31/2015 5:54:45 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson

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TOPICS: Extended News
KEYWORDS: history; milhist; realtime; worldwarii
Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
First session: September 1, 2009. Last date to add: September 2, 2015.
Reading assignment: New York Times articles and the occasional radio broadcast delivered daily to students on the 70th anniversary of original publication date. (Previously posted articles can be found by searching on keyword “realtime” Or view Homer’s posting history .)
To add this class to or drop it from your schedule notify Admissions and Records (Attn: Homer_J_Simpson) by freepmail. Those on the Realtime +/- 70 Years ping list are automatically enrolled. Also visit our general discussion thread.
1 posted on 05/31/2015 5:54:45 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Southern Okinawa: Naha-Shuri-Yonabaru, 1945 – Tenth Army Operations, 10 May-30 June 1945
Okinawa, Ryukyus Islands, 1945: Japanese Thirty Second Army Defensive Dispositions, 1 April 1945
Luzon, P.I., 1941: Final Operations on Luzon, 3 February-20 July 1945
Southeast Asia, 1941: Final Allied Offensives in the Southwest Pacific Area 19 February-1 July 1945
China, 1941: Operation Ichigo, 1945 and Final Operations in the War
Southern Asia, 1941: Third Burma Campaign-Allied Victory, April-May 1945
2 posted on 05/31/2015 5:55:19 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
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The Nimitz Graybook

3 posted on 05/31/2015 5:56:44 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
Good morning!

FIGHTING SPREADS IN SYRIA

"Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose!"

4 posted on 05/31/2015 5:57:17 AM PDT by ken5050 (If Hillary is elected president, what role will Huma Abedin have in the White House? Scary, eh?)
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
Continued from May 27.

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John Toland, The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945

5 posted on 05/31/2015 5:57:28 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
Continued from May 28.

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Major General H.W. Blakeley, USA, Ret., 32d Infantry Division World War II

6 posted on 05/31/2015 5:58:26 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Winston S. Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy

7 posted on 05/31/2015 5:59:26 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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This letter is from my father to one of his sisters and brothers-in-law. Probably the ones in California. The name Chick rings a bell but I don’t recall who it is. No idea about Beverly in Hawaii. (Or “Hawiia,” as the family pronounced it. Like “Missoura.”) – HJS

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8 posted on 05/31/2015 6:00:48 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: r9etb; PzLdr; dfwgator; Paisan; From many - one.; rockinqsranch; 2banana; henkster; meandog; ...
Plan for Germany (Middleton, Daniel) – 2
French Seize Parliament In Bitter Damascus Battle (Sedgwick) – 3
Iran Asks Big Three to Withdraw Troops From Country Immediately – 4
War News Summarized – 4
British Decorate American as Hero – 4
Stronghold in Shuri Falls; Move to Ring Foe Launched (Rae) – 5
Naha is Flattened by Lengthy Siege (Lawrence) – 6-7
Cheers and Rest for American Fighters on Okinawa (photos) – 6-7
U.S. Fliers Batter Foe in Philippines – 7-8
Fleeing Japanese Harassed in China – 8-9
U.S. Fliers ‘Rescue’ Submarine in Peril – 9
Chiang Kai-shek Out As China’s Premier – 9
Day’s Communiques – 11
Britain to Renew Offer to Indians (Gruson) – 11
9 posted on 05/31/2015 6:01:47 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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http://www.etherit.co.uk/month/4/31.htm

May 31st, 1945 (THURSDAY)

UNITED KINGDOM: London: The last underground shelter bunks are removed, from South Wimbeldon station.

Great Yarmouth, Norfolk: The first casualties of peace are the men responsible for clearing thousands of mines from the “invasion” beaches of East Anglia. Maps of the minefields have been lost; in some cases so have the minefields themselves, due to coastal erosion. Above the tideline the army has to clear the danger. Since 1943, 98 Royal Engineers have died and 26 have suffered serious wounds, some losing their sight, in this work. Below the tideline the Royal Navy has the job, often using divers to disarm the unexploded mines. The UXB teams on land also still have work to do, as unexploded bombs are unearthed in war-ravaged streets.
HMCS Loch Alvie arrived in the Clyde with Convoy RA 67.

HMCS Mayflower paid off and returned to RN at Grandmouth, Scotland.

GERMANY: Odilo Globocnik, a key figure in the organization of the Nazi death camps, commits suicide when arrested by a British patrol.

NORWAY: The government in exile returns to Oslo.

SYRIA: Damascus: For the second time in 18 months, Britain has intervened in Syria. Three days of fighting between Arab nationalists and French troops followed Syria’s refusal to negotiate a quasi-independence treaty under duress. Now Anthony Eden, the British foreign secretary, has announced that Britain “can no longer stand aside”, and arranged a cease-fire. With the US backing the Syrians, France’s withdrawal from the Levant seems inevitable.

BURMA: The combined US-British Eastern Air Command is dissolved and the USAAF’s Tenth Air Force and other USAAF units in Burma are directed to support operations in the China Theater.

CHINA: Song Ziwen (Dr T V Soong) succeeds Chiang Kai-shek as president of the Nationalist Yuan.

JAPAN: Okinawa: Japanese forces withdraw from Shuri.

Pfc Clarence Craft (1920-2002) will receive the MOH for his actions todayon Hen Hill, Okinawa, when he killed 25 Japanese soldiers and led his battalion to breach enemy defenses, May 31, 1945. Craft was a rifleman with Company G, 382d Infantry, 96th Infantry Division.

Hen Hill was a tactical position on which the entire Japanese defensive line on Okinawa hinged, according to Crafts’ award citation.

Craft, along with five fellow soldiers, was dispatched to the hill to feel out enemy resistance. The group had proceeded only a short distance up the slope when rifle, machinegun fire and a barrage of grenades wounded three and pinned down the others.

Against odds that appeared suicidal, Craft stood up in full view of the enemy, and according to his citation, began shooting with deadly marksmanship wherever he saw a hostile movement. He steadily advanced up the hill, killing Japanese soldiers with rapid fire and driving others to run for cover. When Craft reached the crest of the hill, he threw grenades at extremely short ranges into the enemy positions. His assault lifted the pressure from his company for the moment, allowing members of his platoon to comply with his motions to advance and pass him more grenades.

With a chain of his comrades supplying him while he stood atop the hill, he hurled a total of two cases of grenades into a main trench and other positions on the reverse slope of Hen Hill. Meanwhile, he also directed the aim of his fellow soldiers who threw grenades from the slope below him.

Craft left his position, where grenades from both sides were passing over his head, and attacked the main enemy trench. Straddling the excavation, he pumped rifle fire into the Japanese at pointblank range, killing many and causing the others to flee down the trench.

Pursuing them, he came upon a heavy machinegun, which was still creating havoc in the American ranks. With rifle fire and a grenade, Craft wiped out the position.

At last, the Japanese were in complete rout and !

American forces swarmed over the hill. Craft continued down the central trench to the mouth of a cave where many of the enemy had taken cover. A satchel charge was given to him, and he tossed it into the cave. When it failed to explode, Craft retrieved the charge from the cave, re-lighted the fuse and threw it back, sealing up the entrance.

Against tremendously superior forces heavily armed with rifles, machineguns, mortars, and grenades, Craft killed at least 25 of the enemy; but reports say his contribution to the campaign on Okinawa was much greater: Hen Hill was the key to the entire defence line, which rapidly crumbled that day. (ARNEWS Correspondent Staff Sgt. Marcia Triggs compiled this report from information provided by the Medal of Honor Society and Center for Military History Web page.)

Mines previously laid by B-29 Superfortresses of the USAAF’s Twentieth Air Force sink a Japanese cargo ship and damage a gunboat, two army cargo ships and a freighter. Another cargo ship is damaged but sinks after being towed into harbor.

CANADA: Minesweeper HMCS Beech Lake launched Port Carling, Ontario.

Frigate HMCS Poundmaker commenced tropicalization refit Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.

U.S.A.: The motion picture “Back to Bataan” to released in the U.S. This war drama, directed by Edward Dmytryk, stars John Wayne, Anthony Quinn, Beulah Bondi, Richard Loo, Philip Ahn and Lawrence Tierney. The plot has an Army Colonel (Wayne) joining Filipino guerrillas after the fall of the Philippines in 1942 until the invasion of Leyte in 1944.

Destroyer USS Shelton laid down.


10 posted on 05/31/2015 6:03:44 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Free Again, Riot in Paris (p. 3, bottom right)

Several thousand repatriated prisoners demonstrated today on the Avenue de l'Opera and before the Prisoners Reception Center at Place Clinchy demanding clothes. Later they marched down the Boulevard Sebastopol crying, "Down with the Jews!" Some broke into shops and forced clerks to fit them with clothes and shoes.

11 posted on 05/31/2015 6:09:26 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("I'm in yer chair, beebing some buttons." ~ Kathleen)
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"The police watched the demonstrations but were not asked to interfere."

It doesn't say whether Al Sharpton was present.

12 posted on 05/31/2015 6:31:02 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Tax-chick

Anti semitism in France took about a three week break.


13 posted on 05/31/2015 7:12:16 AM PDT by freefdny
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To: freefdny

Sounds about right!


14 posted on 05/31/2015 7:47:20 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("I'm in yer chair, beebing some buttons." ~ Kathleen)
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Fake Colleges Wait to Mulct GI Student, Educators Warn
Fly-by-Night Schools Seen Springing Up to Get $500-a-Year U.S. Tuition—States Urged to Prevent Exploitation
By BENJAMIN FINE
May 31, 1945, Section 1, Page 1

A number of fly-by-night schools and “colleges,” designed to exploit the returning veteran who wants to continue his education and is eligible...


Interesting front page article on “fly by night schools” popping up to get some of the government pie. First thing is use of the word “mulct” in the headline. Another word I had to look up.

The article refers to 600 liberal arts colleges in America. Wiki notes that there are “4,726 Title IV degree-granting institutions” in the US. Do you think that explosive growth of the number of schools is a function of the number of potential students or the government money going into them?


15 posted on 05/31/2015 8:24:11 AM PDT by Steven Scharf
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
Pfc Clarence Craft

What a man. His feat remind me of Alvin York in WWI.

God bless the memory of this true hero.

16 posted on 05/31/2015 9:18:51 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
The UXB teams on land also still have work to do, as unexploded bombs are unearthed in war-ravaged streets.

There's a fascinating scene of a crew disarming a dud German bomb in a British town in, if I recall correctly, an episode of the excellent British series, Foyle's War.

17 posted on 05/31/2015 3:58:30 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: EternalVigilance

Well said.


18 posted on 05/31/2015 3:59:07 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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