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Clark Wins Height (Bracker) – 2-3
Nazis Pick Holstein for Danish Puppet – 3
War News Summarized – 3
Red Army Boring into Dnieper Line – 4
Flying Fortresses Ripping Apart Nazi Industrial Ball-Bearing Works (photo) – 5
Arnold Justifies Plane Cost by Damage to Reich Industry – 6
Japanese Fail in Attempt to Land Men to Regain Finschhafen Base (Kluckhohn) – 7
There is No Meat Shortage Here (photo) – 8
Record Runs of Cattle Jam Stockyards; Most Will Go to Corn Belt for Fattening – 8
The Text of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones – 9-10

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/oct1943/f19oct43.htm

Germans in the Dniepr bend threatened
Tuesday, October 19, 1943 www.onwar.com

On the Eastern Front... Soviet forces attack Pyatikhatki, west of Dnepropetrovsk. Konev’s forces strike out of the Kremenchug bridgehead heading from Krivoy Rog. German Army Group South (Manstein) is forming a blocking force to hold Konev in order to have time to withdraw German forces in the bend of the Dniepr River which now face envelopment. Near Kiev, Soviet forces are consolidating bridgeheads over the Dniepr. Soviet forces take Vishgorod.

In Italy... German forces defending Dragoni withdraw before a scheduled attack by elements of the US 5th Army begins.