This is an original issue of Stars and Stripes London Edition from the Archives of Wartime Press.  We are releasing for sale some of our newspapers from our private holdings.

Vol. 4  No. 181  Friday, June 2, 1944             4 Pages

Officials, civilians and military personnel appearing in this issue are noted in parentheses ( )'s after headlines

Article headlines in this issue are:

Yanks Sight Rome, 13 Mi. Off; Bypass Enemy in Velletri - Americans Encircle Lanuvio as British Gain Near Ardea; Nazis Reported Manning Another Defense Line (Henry L. Stimson)

 

Decisive Hour Here—Stimson; Most Air, SOS Troops Across

 

Raids Isolate North From So. France - Allies Say Most Transport Links Are Out; RAF Batters Rail Targets

 

The War Today

 

Give £500 for Child Orphaned When Mother Dies in Rescue - Airmen Act in Gratitude After Effort to Rescue U.S. Fliers Is Fatal (Tony Everitt, Col. Preston PP. Penden, Mrs. Betty Everitt, Sgt. Alvin McAbee, Cpl. Edward V. Sikora, Pfc James Pasternak)

 

Japanese 'Shattered' In South Pacific - Halsey Says Only 2,000 Effectives Left in Area; Cites Big U.S. Blows

 

Negro Fighter-Unit Chief Promoted to Full Colonel (Lt. Col. Benjamin Davis Jr.)

 

250 Sun-Bathing Nazis Wiped Out by Greeks

 

Baby Killed, 2 Yanks Seized As Sub Halts Portuguese Ship (Camilo Grande Perez, Virgilio Magina, Manuel Pinto)

 

Yanks Ignore Odds, Bullets On Vital Hill / By Omar Garrison (Colli Laziale)

 

Johnston Reaches Moscow (Eric Johnston, W. Averell Harriman )

 

F.D.R. Shortly to Visit London, Time States

 

Hash Marks

 

Peace Plans

 

Combined Operations

 

Fish Story

 

Special Service Set for Second Front - Troop Entertainment, Even on the Beaches, Will Be Offered / By Arthur W. White (T/5 Lewis D. McPherson, Cpl. Oscar Lopez, Maj. George W. Smoot, Pfc Jesse Ekins, Cpl. Joe Kaliff, Pfc Edward Ryglewicz, Pvt. Clifton Rawnsley)

 

30 Reich Raids Just Another Adventure for This Vet Airman (S/Sgt. William Lander)

 

Giant Gardella Brings Touch Of Flatbush to Coogan's Bluff

 

Combat Conditioning at Marine School (2/Lt. Ed Keahy, Pfc Mel Nunez)

 

Sport Sidelights (Lt. Col. Bobby II, Dolly King, Dave Danner, Steve Filipowicz, Cpl. Cal Dorsett, Zeke Bonura, Nick Etten, Col. Matt Winn)

 

All-Star Tilt Proceeds To Supply Sports Gear (Kenesaw M. Landis)

 

Illini Trackmen CC Favorites - 11 Teams Remain After Michigan Squad Drops Out (Lt. Cmdr. Paul Hinkle, Glenn Cunningham, Mel Walker, Floyd Bayes, Jerry Thompson, Frank Fletcher, Matt Coker)

 

How They Stand

 

Minor League Results

 

Cards Get Naymick on Wavers (Mike Naymick)

 

Cleo Shans Mauls Jeffra In Ten-Rounder at LA

 

Browns Take Over First From Yankees - Bombers Tied In Pct. Points, Trail in Games - Unser's Homer in 9th With Bases Loaded Gives Tigers 6-2 Victory (Al Unser, Bud Metheny, Ed Levy, Nick Etten, Walter Dubiel, Forrest Orrell, Stubby Overmire, Gene Moore, Sigmund Jakucki, Al Hollingsworth, Alex Carrasquel, Roger Wolff, Roy Cullenbine, Oris Hockett, Ed Klieman, Vernon Kennedy, Oscar Judd, Max Lanier, Max Macon, Connie Ryan, Charlie Barrett, Ray Hamrick, Ron Northey, Charlie Schanz, Bob Ferguson, Nick Strincevich, Calvin Collidge McLish, Augie Galan, Jim Russell, Frank Deward, Danny Gardella, Bill Nicholson, Dominic Dallessandro, Claude Passeau, Bill Fleming)

 

Li’l Abner By Al Capp

 

Help Wanted—And Given (Pvt. John Guzzi, Pvt. Joseph Venuto, Pvt. William Carleton, S/Sgt. Charles W. Jaeger, Sgt. James High, Capt. William Reeder, Pvt. James Lawler, Sgt. Roy Westerman, Pvt. Raymond Cahill, Pvt. Carl Willis, Maj. W. A. Hamrick, Sgt. Albert F. Holloway, Capt. G. B. Silver, MC; Lt. Jere Chase, AC; Lt. Henry Mack, AC; Lt. Jack Miller, AC; Lt. John Piasta, AC; Lt. Fred Ryan, AC; Lt. Grace Porter, ANC, Lt. Joseph Schwartz, AC, Lt. Courtney Bowen, Pfc William Saroyan: WAC Dorothy Semple; Cpl. Marjorie Short, Cpl. Walter J. Slaughter ; Lt. Robert J. Spiegal, Sgt. Charles M. Stasinopulos, Alamson P. Stevens, Maj. Ralph Taylor, Wallace Terry, Van Alstyne, Lt. Thomas Tripplett, Cpl. Russ Trombly, WAC Sgt. Adele Varritti, Cpl. Albert Wantz, James O. Ward ; Pvt. George Warner, Pvt. Albert Whisman, Lt. Clarence Wiesner, A.C. Robert Clark Wilson, Pvt. Leslie A. Wood; WAC Pvt. Jennie York ; Pvt. Edward Zepp, Sgt. Charles Zido, S/Sgt. H. L. Peace, T/5 Robert W. McCorkle, W/O Jay E. Lauer.)

 

Stilwell's Men Storm Japanese Base In North Burma - Capture Swells Pressure On Kamaing; Threat to Changsha Increases (Lt. Gen. Joseph Stilwell, Donald W. Douglas, Lt. William B. Arnold, Gen. H. H. Arnold)

 

Art Show at Edinburgh

 

AFN Radio Program

 

Painting the Town? Try a Mild and Bitter

 

Enemy Losses Swell in Russia - Nazis   Continue   Attacks In Rumania, Open New Thrusts Near Vitebsk

 

Yanks Praised For Saving Britons Trapped in Blaze (Pfc August Jacobs, Sgt. John P. Coyle, T/5 Arthur
Gingy, T/5 Arnold Maki)

 

15,000-Ft. Dive Blows Fire Out., Saves a Fort (Lt. Racy S. Breed)

 

It's a Rugged Life, But the Sarge Takes A Busman's Holiday (1/Sgt. William E. Kleinhans, Lt. John Joca)

 

Alabama's Runoff Returns Patrick to Congress Seat (Rep. John P. Newsome, Rep. Carter
Manasco, William B. Bankhead, J. H. Deason)

 

June 15 'Infantry Day'

 

U.K. Spending By Yanks Drops

 

3 Ground Kills Put P51 Ace in Tie for ETO Strafing Title (Lt. Ralph Hofer, Maj. James
Goodson, Col. Donald Blakeslee, Capt. Don Gentile)

 

ETO Whets Interest Of Bored 87-Op Man (Sgt. John Gungl)

 

News From Home - Ickes Restores Coal Mines to Their Owners - Anthracite and a Few Bituminous Units Only Ones Still in U.S. Hands (Harold L. Ickes. Rear Adm. Husband E. Kimmel and Maj. Gen. Walter Short, Mrs. Sophie Krisunias, Mayor Wodall Rodgers, Helen Beebe, Sen. Lister Hill)


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