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Japs Ask for Peace--Surrender Is Near; Marine Vets Utter Fervent 'Thank God' Peace Is Near MARINECORPSCHEVRON ?M&SUCO BY THE UniTCD STfITCS nuMincs in m son diego area '"varivrNo. 3i Saturday Morning, August 11, 1945 1 Japs Ask For Peace--Surrender Is Near; Marine Vets Utter Fervent 'Thank God' Peace is near. Peace—for which we fought and bled and saw our buddies die—is close at hand. Once Canadian Peace and the quiet we have dreamed about through nearly four years of blood and sweat and disease and filth Sailor, Now is so close you can almost touch it—yet, so close you cannot believe it. In Corps You want to cheer, but there is a lump in your throat that • stops it; you would like to cry—but hold it back. Normandy on D-day should Thoughts of the future already are crowding the realities be enough to satisfy the fight- battle in of the moment. er's appetite for The realities are best represented that a port and starboard watch probably would be put into ef- anyone, but it didn't for Ca- by the following United Press dis- fect. nadian born Pvt. Jean J. patch: Beaudoin,- now receiving his pri- There was no general outburst of cheering or other display of training the Base Recruit (United Press) mary at WASHINGTON emotions among the many over- Depot. He enlisted in the Marine —Radio Tokyo Friday broadcast seas veterans stationed here. Corps only 13 days after being dis- an offer by seared and shattered The reaction among the women charged the Canadian Navy. on from Japan to surrender to the Allies, Marines, too, appeared the "I wanted to get in the other and the offer Friday afternoon subdued side, though a few femi- war before the fun was over," he was being considered by the nine cheers were heard in their war barracks when radios blared said. "I fought the European United States, Great Britain, Rus- from the engine of a frigate, forth with the news of the Jap room sia and China. to see how it's done surrender offer. now I'm going The official Japanese surrender in the Marine Corps." "Wonder what do now," offer may be acted upon before I'll was the comment of many of the DIFFERENT Saturday, although even if it COUPS IS Marines. should be acceptable, it might be So far Pvt. Beaudoin finds the Speculation was rife as to the time before it could be put Murine Corps vastly different from some "wheal's and how's" of demobili- a into effect. -his c .nmlian seagoing job and zation after the war.' This ques- The offer was conditioned on the good *,o"kiipr. tion, however, would have go Japanese Emperor retaining his to "The whole bloomin' Canadian unanswered for the present. sovereignty. Unofficial belief here Navy, the Normandy battle and was that this in itself was not Although press reports indi- eight days in the brig couldn't be Karis likely be a barrier acceptance cated tbat London and aiiti tougher than this," he commented, to to of the surrender. other world capitals were going but added hastily, "I like it. I There official word ■ delirious with Joy at the prospect think I'll like it even more when I was no on this point, however. of peace, San Diego seemed to get out of boot camp." serenely the (Photo by Sgi. Matt Mickelsen) ' Apparently Soviet was react to news. Y. Russia NORMANDY: D-DAY the first to receive the official Downtown streets were quiet THEN AND NOW. Showing a photo taken only a few Japanese surrender notice. For more quiet than usual. — His ship, the frigate HMCS Navy, standing just months ago when he was a member of the Canadian several hours after Moscow an- StrathaJam, was five receipt Normandy Beaudoin now in training at Base Recruit nounced of the offer, offi- miles off the coast of Pvt. Jean J. cial Washington had not received OKINAWA (United Press) D-day was Depot, admits that a new uniform and haircut can change during the invasion. It any communication regarding the American troops went wild on this- there that she struck a mine which appearance move. one"s slightly. peace Friday afternoon, island they conquered less thin severely damaged her and killed Washington was com- however, in two months ago today when they six of the crew. Beaudoin was munication with the other three at heard radio reports that Tokyo hla station in the ship's engine Allied powers discussing the sur- render offer. had said Japan would accept the when it happened. He and Corps Training room Schools 'Credit' Tokyo Radio said the surrender Potsdam surrender ultimatum. Others in the engine room were un- High school and college credits same procedure. offer—which came four days after They fired off guns and flares. able to go above-deck for 22 hours now be granted for boot camp It is recommended that schools history's first atomic bomb anni- Tracers criss-crossed the sky. Men after the explosion. will specialist training, flight instruc- grant a maximum of four credits hilated Hiroshima — was being yelled and beat on buckets. They tion, and other military experience (two units) for the "successful transmitted through the Swiss hammered one another's backs following approval of a new p':i completion" of basic or recruit and Swedish governments. shouting: Solomon Cost by the War and Navy departments, training programs in accordance "The war's over." the American Council of Educa- with the school's policy of allowing How the peace news hit MCB: The display of pyrotechnics was the Guadalcanal, the first of tion, and the National Association school credit for learning fields In The varied activities of the greater than any ever seen during U. S. Marines' World War II of Secondary School Principals. the basic training coutse. Base moved on without interrup- Japanese suicide attacks. campaigns in the Pacific, cost Purpose of the new allowance is To apply for special credit, the tion Friday morning despite a Searchlights were turned on. them a total of 4390 casualties. to help service personnel on active form "Application for Credit for general murmur of optimism and Machine guns opened up. Bullets this The Leatherneck dead in duty or veterans to apply to civil- Educational Achievement During relief that spread through bar- ■were falling everywhere. totaled 1092; drive another 204.1 ian educational institutions for Military Service1 must be com- racks and office buildings. "We'd better get into a foxhole, were wounded in action, 527 high school or college credit for pleted. Forms and complete infor- "Thank God," was the com- somebody's gonna get hurl," they suffiTcd combat fatigue and 28 their military experience and train- mation may be 'obtained at the ment of most Marines when they said. are lifted as missing In action, ing. Personnel who wish to inform Base education office, Special first heard the news. But nobody did. The Yanks were according official to reports former or prospective employers of Services department. Officers and Up until press time Friday certain they were going home soon from Marine Corps headquar- their training and experience enlisted men and women of both there was no official announce- and the result was the wildest ters. gained while in the Navy or Ma- the Navy and Marine Corps are ment regarding a V- J Day celebration ever seen in the West- rine Corps may also follow this eligible. schedule, although it was known ern Pacific. 'Canal' Day This Week Three years ago, on Aug. 7, 1942, Marines stormed the beaches of Guadalcanal and hurled themselves against a numerically superior enemy in a desperate attempt to halt the Japanese ad- vance in the Pacific. The day was thereupon marked for history, for the attack was the first American offensive of the war. Through five dramatic months of bloodshed and jungle suffering, the men of the Ist Mar. Div., Rein., absorbed a deluge of Jap bombs and naval gunfire and banzai attacks, and they fought back and defeated the enemy. And Guadalcanal became the symbol of a new kind of war—a war without moments of glory, with only blood, and horror, and prolonged misery. Today, the war's battlefields are far removed EYES AND EARS. A dug-in Marine height- from that once-bloody island where the enemy TAKING IT. A Jap bomber sored a direct hit finder which kept anti-aircraft guns on Jap met his first major defeat, but Guadalcanal is on this Guadalcanal airplane hangar, but the |tergets over Guadalcanal. still the symbol of the Pacific war. enemy paid heavily for such attacks. Top!?Dere Marineand 'Son' in Strange Drama By StfSgt.Bert Hanna which had become infected and he MCAD, MIRAMAR—A 12-year-old white boy who lived required immediate medical atten- and worked with guerrillas on Mindanao in the Philippines tion. He had burned his right hand in heating steel f<-r 8 bolo may way during the Jap occupation soon be on his to knife he was making and was In America as the adopted son of his "buddy," MTSgt. Philip danger of losing two How it feel to be back States? This litter should reach ingers or does in the D. Conway, 23, of Denver, Colo. possibly the whole hand from in- you at your furlow address, but of course you may be a littul too The strange story of the attach-' fection. busy to» read such things as litters. Howsumever, Top, when you of the Ist had been under sober up I should be very pleezed indeed to hear your reackshuns ment between the sergeant and MAW, "I took him right over to sick and to this country.
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