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Foe Fighting Hard – 2-3
The Red Fleet Hampering Nazi Flight from Crimea (photo) – 3
Ship Repairs Aid in Atlantic Fight – 3
Air Officers Tell of Invasion Role – 3
Double Air Strike – 4-5
OWI to Hire 450 for Invasion Work – 5
War News Summarized – 5
Allies Bare Shifts in Fronts in Italy – 6-7
Vital India Roads are Cut; Allies Lose Dimapur Route – 7
ODT Again Curbs Child Camp Travel – 7
India Propaganda is Aiding Japanese – 8
Navy to Press Hunt in Pacific, King Says (Crider) – 8
Japanese Planes Trapped on an Airfield at Hollandia (photo) – 9
A Moment of Diversion on Bougainville (photo) – 10
4-F’s in War Jobs Backed by Public (Gallup) – 12
Hershey Demands Farms Sort Men – 12
Getting the News of the World (photo) – 13
Latest War Casualties – 13
Day’s Communiques – 14-15

The News of the Week in Review
Fifteen News Questions – 16
“Ach, It’s Noisy!” (cartoon) – 17
Nazi War Lords Soon Must Show Their Hand (Baldwin) – 18-19
Possible Russian Moves to West (map) – 19
Answers to Fifteen News Questions – 19
Offensive Strategy Rules Our Moves in the Pacific (map) – 20
Indian Fighting Holds Far Eastern Spotlight (Shalett) – 21-22
More Bombing is Required to Set the Invasion Stage (Middleton) – 22-23
Report from the Nation (by Lawrence Dame, Virginius Dabney, James E. Crown, Louther S. Horne, Roland M. Jones, and Lawrence E. Davies) – 23-24

The New York Times Magazine
Britain’s Royal Princess Comes of Age (by Rebecca West, first-time contributor) – 25-27

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1944/apr44/16apr44.htm#

Germans counterattack along Dnestr
Sunday, April 16, 1944 www.onwar.com

Panther tank of SSTK preparing to counterattack [photo at link]

On the Eastern Front... In the Crimea, Soviet forces of the Independent Coastal Army capture Yalta. To the west, the 3rd Ukrainian Front cross the Dnestr River to the north and south of Tiraspol. German forces counterattack the Soviet bridgeheads over the Dnestr but fail to dislodge the Red Army defenders.

Over Romania... Soviet bombers strike Galatz.

In Occupied Hungary... The Eichmann organization begins the systematic concentration of about 800,000 Jewish Hungarians in ghettoes.