7 Cars Jump Track – 2
Injured in Train Wreck – 2
Japanese Miss Aim – 3
War News Summarized – 3
Where the Japanese are Trapped on Bleak Attu Island in the Aleutians (map and photo) – 4-5
Chungking is Calm as Usual in Alert (Atkinson) – 6
305 Enemy Planes Smashed in Mediterranean in 4 Days – 6-7
Guerrilla Blows Spread in Balkans – 7
Members of the Joint and Combined Chiefs of Staff of the United States and Great Britain (photo) – 8
Wants 45 Billion More in ’43 for War – 9
Green Unit’s Fight Held Guadalcanal (Hailey) * – 11
Davies is Stalin’s Guest at State Dinner; Both See Movie Based on Book by Envoy – 11
Wounded Arrive from Tunis Front – 11
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 12-13
* First of a seven-part series on the 164th Infantry on Guadalcanal.
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/may1943/f23may43.htm
Germans in the Kuban fighting back
Monday, May 24, 1943 www.onwar.com
German machinegunner provides covering fire [photo at link].
On the Eastern Front... In the Caucasus, the German 17th Army continues to counterattack. Soviet forces continue to hold the offensive.
In the Aleutian Islands... On Attu American forces make some progress along the Clevesy Pass. There is heavy fighting over Fish Hook Ridge.
In the United States... Mississippi river flooding continues. In total, 150,000 people become homeless.
In Washington... The Trident Conference continues.