Sunday, May 12, 2013

May 12, 1945; Troops Redeployed or Return Home:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, MAY 12, 1945:



VALPARAISO, INDIANA, SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1945
Nazi Now In Custody
Charged With
8 Separate Acts.
BY EDWARD V. ROBERTS
LONDON. May 12.—(UP) —A member of the United Nations war crimes commission said today that Herman Goering has been indicted on at least eight separate counts and "we have an airtight case."
"I would like to prosecute him myself," a commission member said in revealing that the evidence already compiled against Goering as a war criminal filled several volumes.

Tanks and Flame
Throwers Used In
Battle On Okinawa
By PRANK TREMAINE
GUAM, May 12.—(UP)— Marines of the Sixth Division today stormed the outskirts of Naha, ruined capital of Okinawa.
Three other marine and army divisions also battled southward across the southern tip of Okinawa as a general offensive to crush the island's last 45.000 defenders
went into its second day.

U. S. Troops Pouring Into
Ports For Return Home
WASHINGTON, May 12— (UP)
—Today is R-Day, the day the United States officially begins redeploying its mighty 8.300.000 man army to concentrate on its remaining enemy, Japan.

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