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Leaflet bombing of Japan has been stepped up sharply since V-E day. Both B-29 Superforts and carrier-based planes are dropping paper salvos, at the rate of 500,000 to 1,000,000 leaflets daily. Principal target of these broadsides is the gumbatsu, the military clique which rules the empire: ". . . our bombers will return . . . many times, as long as your militarists continue this war." A small leaflet like a 10-yen note bears on the reverse: "The gumbatsu is wasting your tax money. For this war the gumbatsu has spent the equivalent of 5,000 yen for every...
Four weeks after V-E day, General of the Army Dwight David Eisenhower and Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery had finally headed for Berlin. There they would sit down with Marshal Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov, their opposite number from the Red Army, and open the long delayed first meeting of the Allied Control Commission...
...first quarter after V-E day (to Aug. 8), an estimated 280,000 men will come back from Europe each month (to speed westward, go to various camps, scurry home on furloughs). In the second quarter (to Nov. 8) the figure will run around 395,000, possibly reaching a peak of 500,000, then tapering...
After that, everybody forgot all about the cracle from the London School of Economics. But his original prediction turned out to be true, if not in quite the way Finer had expected. The Russians by-passed Breslau, and it didn't finally end its resistance until V-E...
Brigadier General Frank A. ("Honk") Allen Jr., SHAEF's public-relations director, won the Army's Legion of Merit-but not for balling up the V-E day announcement. Said General Eisenhower: the "sound judgment constantly demonstrated by this officer reflected great credit upon the U.S. Army...