Allies Pursue Foe (Middleton) – 2-3
Two Major Lessons Found in Survey of Tunisian Battle (Kluckhohn) – 3-4
War News Summarized – 4
Reich Base Seared – 5
Reporters Fly on U.S. Raid; Call Reich Attack ‘Efficient’ (by Gladwin Hill, first-time contributor, Cronkite) * – 6
‘Rough’ the Word for Bombers’ Job – 7
Gandhi is Cheerful on 17th Day; He Believes God Keeps Him Alive – 7
Russians Enlarge Wedges in Ukraine – 8
Soviet Seen Firm for Gain Since ’39 (Callender) – 8-9
Our Envoy Reports Big Oil Aid to Spain – 9
Yemen is Reported Seizing Axis Nationals; Arab Ruler Silences Pro-Nazi Broadcasts – 9
Hints of Vatican Mediation Persist; Ciano to Talk with Pope Today – 10
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones – 11-13
Mission Completed Marines Take Leave of Guadalcanal (photo) – 13
* Some of our ships went down.
One of those downed ships was carrying Times London correspondent Robert P. Post.
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/feb1943/f27feb43.htm
Germans Counterattacking Soviet Flank
Saturday, February 27, 1943 www.onwar.com
German anti-aircraft gun fires on Soviet positions [photo at link]
On the Eastern Front... Manstein’s forces attacking from the south are now on a line from Lozovaya to Kramatorsk.