[Homer_J_Simpson]

Americans Retire (Middleton) – 2
U.S. Tanks Tackle Rommel’s to Save Encircled Infantry (Kluckhohn) – 3
War News Summarized – 3
Russians Say Nazis Retreat on Entire Southern Front – 4
Large Nazi Forces Fighting Russians (Parker) – 5
Germans Disclose Kharkov Reverse – 5
Manpower Problems-II (Baldwin) – 6
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 7-9

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/feb1943/f16feb43.htm

Germans abandon Kharkov, Soviets move in
Tuesday, February 16, 1943 www.onwar.com

German forces withdrawing from the Kharkov area [photo at link]

On the Eastern Front... Kharkov is captured by the Red Army after several days of intensive fighting on the approach to the city. General Hausser, commanding the 2nd SS Panzer Corps, chooses to withdraw from Kharkov rather than risk encirclement inside the city. This action is carried out in spite of an order, directly from Hitler, to defend the city.

In Tunisia... Forward elements of Montgomery’s forces capture Medenine on the approaches to the Mareth line.