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Billboard Top Ten for the Week of September 16, 1944

#1 - “Swinging on a Star” – Bing Crosby
#2 - “I’ll Walk Alone” – Dinah Shore
#3 - “You Always Hurt the One You Love” – Mills Brothers
#4 - “I’ll Be Seeing You” – Bing Crosby
#5 - “Time Waits for No One” – Helen Forrest
#6 – “Is You Is or Is You Ain’t (Ma’ Baby)” – Bing Crosby, with the Andrews Sisters
#7– “I’ll Walk Alone” – Martha Tilton
#8 – “His Rocking Horse Ran Away” – Betty Hutton
#9 – “It Had to Be You” - Dick Haymes/Helen Forrest
#10 - “G.I. Jive” – Louis Jordan

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Defenses Crumble (Middleton, Sedgwick) – 2-3
21-Year-Old Officer Leads Way through Siegfried Line (Wolfert) – 4-5
American Troops on German Soil (page 1 photo) – 5
German Response to U.S. Army Ranges from Relief to Full Flight (by William Smith White, first-time contributor, Gorrell) – 5
United States Armor and Troops Carry the War to Germany (photos) – 6-7
Red Army Shells Enemy in Warsaw – 8
8th Army Captures Key Adriatic Ridge (by Herbert L. Matthews) – 8-9
Latest Casualties Reported by Navy – 9
Landing on Peleliu (by Robert Trumbull and Frank L. Kluckhohn) – 10-11
M’Arthur Says Japan is Doomed – 11
War News Summarized – 11
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Theatres – 12-14