STARS & STRIPES, June 14, 1945  This was the: "Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces in the European Theater of Operations" as noted in the masthead.
The front page reports: "Okinawa Yanks Intensity Drives On 2 Jap Pockets" Negro Troops to Form 10.4% Of U.S. Army of Occupation" & more. One of the front page photos is a weeping General George S. Patton.
Eight pages, tabloid-size, small piece from the front leaf spine, nice condition.

Background: This June 14, 1945 edition of The Stars and Stripes is a highly significant and rare historical artifact that captures the global military transition from victory in Europe to the brutal final stages of the Pacific War. The front-page headlines brilliantly document a shifting world: the "Yanks Intensify Drives" on Okinawa marks the bloody, final amphibious campaign of World War II just a week before the island's capture, while the announcement that "Negro Troops" would comprise 10.4% of the occupation forces offers a stark look at the strictly segregated U.S. military wrestling with its postwar demographic footprint three years before desegregation. Most compellingly, the front-page photograph of a weeping General George S. Patton provides a rare, vulnerable crack in the "Old Blood and Guts" persona during his emotional June 1945 homecoming tour, contrasting sharply with his famously rigid reputation. Because these newspapers were printed on cheap, acidic wartime newsprint intended for quick consumption and disposal by soldiers in the field, surviving, complete eight-page copies from this pivotal month are exceptionally rare, serving as a preserved time capsule of the exact moment the United States pivoted from liberating Europe to finishing the war in Japan and managing the dawn of the postwar era.