11 h. : Service religieux a la cathédrale américaine de Sainte Trinite.
À l’issue de la cérémonie l’ambassadeur des Etats-Unis déposera une couronne a l’Inconnu.
15 h. : Cérémonie au cimetière américain de Suresnes où des milliers de soldats sont inhumes : M. Jefferson Caffery, ambassadeur des États-Unis en France, prononcera un discours.
Rome, 29 mai – Le G.Q.G. allié en Méditerranée annonce que les officiers américains et britanniques appartenant à la mission militaire alliée ont quitté Trieste.
On apprend que cette décision a été prise afin d’écarter toute possibilité d’incidents avec les autorités yougoslaves.
Truman reçoit le représentant de Tito
Le président Truman a reçu aujourd’hui M. Soubachitch, ministre des Affaires étrangères de Yougoslavie. L’entretien a porte sur l’affaire de Trieste.
The St. Petersburg Times (May 30, 1945)
Yanks seize capital city of Okinawa
By the Associated Press
(AP) – Destruction of the heart of Tokyo by American Superfortresses was officially disclosed by the U.S. bomber command at Guam today at an hour when Japan’s great port of Yokohama flamed under the impact of more than 3,000 tons of B-29 firebombs.
Photographic proof that 51 square miles of Tokyo were but ashes and rubble and the heavy lashing of Yokohama represented but two highlights of the fast-moving war in the Orient and almost hourly the situation of Nippon darkened.
U.S. Marines and doughboys on Okinawa, southern doorstep of the Japanese homeland, seized the capital city of Naha, reached the stubbornly defended Shuri castle fortress, and shoved deeper into Nippon territory.
Yank doughboys in the Philippines captured the last dam in the vast Manila watershed.
Chinese forces, fighting on home ground, greatly enlarged their hold on the Japanese land lifeline into southern Asia.
Japan again shook up her top naval commands.
Yokohama, near Tokyo, felt the weight of America’s mighty Superfortresses for the first time. Close to 500 of the mammoth bombers hit the city in broad daylight Tuesday, Japanese Time, unloading 3,200 tons of incendiaries with excellent results.
The Superfortresses bombed visually and Yank fliers on the mission said fires flared “all over the place” with smoke columns rising four to five miles. Within the target area are big piers, shipyards, automotive and aviation industries.
Two B-29s were lost. Air opposition was weak but the raiders said ack-ack was intense and accurate.
Army fighters escorted the Superfortresses. They shot down 26 Japanese interceptors, listed 10 others as probables and damaged 18. Three of the Yank fighters were shot down but one pilot was rescued.
The Japanese radio, quoting an imperial communiqué, acknowledged considerable damage in Yokohama. It said the American planes swarmed over Yokohama and adjoining Kawasaki for an hour and a half. Some of the giant bombers, Tokyo added, raid capital.
The communiqué made the unconfirmed claim that 30 of the raiders were shot down and 40 damaged.
The U.S. XXI Bomber Command at Guam made the sensational disclosure that Superfortress firebombs have burned the heart out of Tokyo. Reconnaissance photographs showed 51 square miles of destruction radiating from the imperial palace ground.
Sprawling war plants and thousands of home industries turning out war materials were left in ashes as were business and governmental buildings.
Tokyo was hit twice last week by American fire raiders. The more than 500 Superfortresses in each attack unloaded a grand total of 8,500 tons of incendiaries.
The battle for Okinawa found Marines in control of practically all of Naha. Other leathernecks were at Shuri Castle, former Japanese headquarters. In one Marine and two Army sectors resistance was fierce. The Japanese threw new suicide plane attacks against American ships off Okinawa. One light unit was damaged. Yank planes and ship and shore gunners have knocked down 115 enemy planes during the past two days.
Domei reported formation of a new Japanese suicide service – called “jinrai.” This outfit, the agency said, comprised young officers and men who were piloting suicide rocket bombs with “effectiveness” against American land and sea forces at Okinawa.
Liberation of the last segment of Manila’s water supply system and termination of organized Japanese resistance in the Santa Fe sector of northeast Luzon were reported by Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
Troops of the U.S. 38th Infantry Division secured Wawa Dam in the Manila watershed. The 25th and 32nd Divisions joined forces at Santa Fe, north of the bloody Balete Pass region. These Yanks were firmly astride the northern reach of the highway leading to the Cagayan Valley.
The breach in Japan’s vital China-Indochina corridor was widened to about 120 miles when Chinese troops pushed to the vicinity of Shulo. The roadside town is 60 miles from recaptured Yungning (Nanning) where the Chinese punched the first hole in the Nippon mainland lifeline to southern Asia.
Fierce fighting was reported by the Chinese High Command at Pinyang, important highway hub 60 miles northeast of Yungning.
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