Shortly after Japan's surrender, in a ship's newspaper...

Item # 691225

August 20, 1945

BUTNER WORLD NEWS, Aug. 20, 1945 This is a mimeographed newspaper produced by the staff on board the USS General H.W. Butner, the American troop carrier transporting troops from Europe to the Pacific.
It is a four page newspaper, typewriter set, with front page headlines including: "Okinawa-Based Troops to Enter Japan As Occupation Forces" "Stars & Stripes Reams Congress on Draft Discontinuance, Occupation" "Surrender Machinery Begins to Roll; Japs on Way to Manila" and more inside.
Measures 8 by 13 inches, two leaves stapled together, the back page is blank, half of the third page is taken up with a cartoon.