Prime Minister to First Lord and First Sea Lord 15 May 45
Let me have your proposals forthwith for returning to the fishermen the largest number of the trawlers which are in your possession, and also for doing your utmost to repair and help them to get to sea at the earliest moment.
We need another three or four hundred thousand tons of fish, which are all there waiting, to help us through the hard years which are coming.
Winston S. Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy
Bastion Captured (Moscow) – 2
Tank Team Spends Grim Okinawa Day (Lawrence) – 3
War News Summarized – 3
Three Scenes From the Battlefields of Okinawa Tell of Bitter Struggle for the Island (photos) – 4-6
Luzon Foe Driven from Balete Pass (Parrott) – 5
Chinese Driving on Paoking Base – 6
Nagoya Area Fired in Big B-29 Strike (Jones) – 7
The All-Star American Team that Helped Defeat Italy and Germany (photo) – 8
Eisenhower Bars Coddling Of Foe in Rebuking Guilty (Middleton) – 8-9
Hitler’s Bavarian Retreat after It Was Fired by the SS (photos) – 9
1st U-Boat Yields to Us Off Jersey (by William G. Weart, first-time contributor) – 10-11
A German Submarine Gives Up Off Coast of New Jersey (photo) – 10
Prowling Ended: German Submarine Surrenders to Our Navy (page 1 photo) – 11
‘Conquest’ Meaning Dawns on Germans (by Richard J.H. Johnston) – 12
200 Depth Charges Beat a Davy Jones Dirge For Last U-Boat Bagged Off East Coast – 12
Charges Piling Up against Himmler – 13
Air Ace Gabreski Freed With 9,200 * – 13
9th ‘Invades’ Zone to Free Prisoners – 14
French Leftists Retaining Gains (by G.H. Archambault) – 14
Conferees Invited to Talk by Smith – 15
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 16
*Another one of the 9,200 freed from Stalag Luft I was Homer’s uncle.