Total Surrender Near – The Stars And Stripes 05/07/1945

Headline: “Total Surrender Near”
Top Headline: “Army Reveals Plan to Release 650,000 in ETO”
From The Stars and Stripes, 05/07/1945

It’s a week after Hitler’s death, and Germany has not yet surrendered.  This newspaper documents the day before V-E day.  The Allies are still mopping up in Germany, and the Army is already making demobilization plans.

This newspaper is flat and readable, but does have some ink doodles on the front page, and in margin of center page.

Photos in the image gallery include:

• full front page of this newspaper
• article reporting how American POWs were treated in Japanese camps
• soldiers on an American warship watch a Japanese “Frances” plane burn after it was shot down while attempting a suicide dive onto the deck of the ship
• article about an American man who was notified by the military about his own death on Iwo Jima, although he was never there
• article about how news of a German bridge’s destruction created a rumor that the Bridge of the Gods collapsed in Oregon
• article about Tokyo’s reaction to German peace overtures
• he full comic strip page including Lil Abner, Terry and the Pirates, Abbie an’ Slats, Dick Tracy, Blondie and Joe Palooka