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Happy Easter 2013. Easter 1943 won't be for a few weeks yet.

8,000 Are Captured (Sulzberger) – 2-3
Allies’ Tunisian Air Margin Gives Hope of Early Victory (Baldwin) – 3-4
War News Summarized – 4
Rommel’s 1,430-Mile, 158-Day Retreat Unparalleled; No Defeat in History Approaches It in Speed of Flight – 5
Cloak for Invasion (Daniell) – 6
Senate Confirms Land by 70-5 Vote – 6
Fierce Nazi Blows Fail on Donets; Russians Press Toward Smolensk (Parker) – 7
Churchill Warns of Overoptimism (Bracker) – 7
4th Term Strategy (Krock) – 8
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones – 9-10

3 posted on 03/31/2013 5:34:44 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/mar1943/f31mar43.htm

Red Army moves into the Kuban Peninsula
Wednesday, March 31, 1943 www.onwar.com

Soviet troops advancing into a townOn the Eastern Front... The Soviets take Anastasyevsk in the Kuban north of Novorossiysk.

In New Guinea... An American battalion occupies positions around Morobe at the mouth of the Waria River.

4 posted on 03/31/2013 5:37:44 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))