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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, MAY 8, 1945
White Flag in Berlin Does Not Mean End Of War for Troops
Is your man in Europe? Then, you want to know when he will be home.
The job if withdrawing our fighting forces from Europe, keeping their morale at a high level, reequipping them and turning them on the Japanese in the Pacific as soon as possible, presents an enormous mid-war problem.
According to military and naval authorities, it will be many months before most of the American soldiers come home, and few of them will come to stay. The defeat of Germany makes little difference in the case of the Navy, as a large percentage of our sea forces already are in the Pacific area, and other vessels will be left for patrolling and training purposes. Navy demobilization will not take place till the defeat of Japan, Admiral King says.
Some troops will stay in Europe as the army of occupation. It probably will be a year or two before replacements will make it possible for them to come home. Many of the service units of the ground and air forces will go directly to the Pacific to prepare bases for the combat soldiers following alter. Others—but few others—will be sent to the Pacific by way of the United States and a furlough. Most of the men fit into these two latter categories.
Joseph Stalin
Russia's Premier
Joseph Stalin became premier of Soviet Russia, succeeding Molotov, n 1941.
Russia's war aims were stated by tim in an address on March 6, 1942. They were in part "abolition of racial exclusiveness, equality of nations and integrity of their territories, liberation of enslaved nations, restoration of democratic liberties, and the destruction of the Hitler regime."
Stalin, who was born in 1879, oined the Russian revolution at the age of 15, and by 1897 was secretly sading a Marxist circle at the Seminary at Tiflis. He was arrested and silenced six times.
After the Russo-Japaese war in '905 he became one of Lenin's most rusted lieutenants.
In 1934 Stalin became 1 of 37 members of the Presidium of the All-Union Central Executive committee, his first government position.
He has been married twice. His first wife, Catherine died in 1917. In 1919 he married Nadyezhda who lived in 1932. He has two sons and one daughter. One son is in the Russian air force and the other is a captain in the artillery. Both have been decorated for valor.
Still others will be sent back here and demobilized. The wounded will be brought home, if possible, within three months. As many of the air forces as can be spared will come home on furlough, though Gen. H. H. Arnold says that a great number will be sent directly to the Pacific.
A point system giving credits for length of time in service, length of time overseas, combat decorations, and parenthood, has been worked out by the army to facilitate a fair method of discharge. Men with the highest number of points will be discharged first.
the Pacific, as well as in Europe, it will take longer for replacements to reach them, and because they have farther to go, it will require more time for them to get home.
charged first.
Though this plan applies to men in
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Danger, Also at Rest Camp
Mediterranean theater soldiers recently discovered all the danger is not at the front when a bomb-ladert plane made a forced landing on a track in front of the train taking them to rest camp—the train stopped in time.
Yes, G. I. Joe Is Marching! By the Bitter Price of Blood, Sweat and Tears, He Has Gone Through Berlin: The City That Symbolized Nazism and the German Reich. But He's Not Laying Down His Arms Now! He Knows the Battle Is but Half Won, That He Has a Tough and Cunning Enemy to Lick in the West, That He Must Have the Best Equipment and the Best Training Possible to Lick Japan. Let Us, Here on the Home-Front, Take the Same Stand! At This Crucial Time Many of Us Are Prone to Adopt the Attitude That the War Is All but Over! More Than Ever, G. I. Joe Needs Help From Us in the Form of Vital War Supplies and the Moral Support That Comes From Letters Sent by Loved Ones. So Let's All Get in the Fight That We May Soon See a V-J Day That Will Crown Our Efforts With a Decisive Victory Over Japan!
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