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First Round is Won (Middleton) – 2-3
Eisenhower Rubs His Seven Luck-Pieces as Allied Invasion Fleet Approaches Sicily (by Edward Gilling, first-time contributor) – 2
War News Summarized – 3
Invasion a Blob of Warships and Flaming Shores to Flier – 4
Sailing for Sicily: Allied Forces on Their Invasion Voyage to the Axis Stronghold (photos) – 5-6
Allied Bombs Rip French Airfields (by Frederick Graham) – 7 Soviet Lines Hold – 8
Japanese Warships Bombed Off Munda (Durdin) – 9
Burma Raid Made by British Troops – 9-10
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones – 11-13

The News of the Week in Review
“The Battle of Europe Has Begun” (map) – 14
Zero Hour – 15
Twenty News Questions – 16
Finest Allied Army Leads Invasion of Sicily (Middleton) – 17
The Allies Move Up the Solomons ‘Ladder’ (map) – 19
Japanese Reeling Back Before Drive In Pacific (Shalett) – 20
Man to Man in the Jungle (Durdin) – 21
Third Summer Campaign in Russia: First Phase (map) – 22
Nazis Strike at Russia in Third Great Gamble (Sulzberger) – 23
Answers to Twenty News Questions – 24

Editorials – 25-27
The Invasion Begins
The Inflationary Gap
Russia and the Pacific
Machine Tool Problem
Messages to China
Helicopters in a New Role
Beans
Topics of the Times

The New York Times Book Review
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, by Capt. Ted W. Lawson (White) – 28-29
Hitler, by Joachim Fest (by CougarGA7) – 30
The Best Selling Books, Here and Elsewhere – 31