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
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/jul1943/f11jul43.htm
Allied navies bombard advancing Germans
Sunday, July 11, 1943 www.onwar.com
In Sicily... The British advance almost unopposed. Palazzolo is taken. On the coast, there is a halt late in the day at Priolo. The American forces encounter resistance in their advance. The German Panzer Division “Hermann Goring” strikes toward American held Gela from its positions around Caltagirone. Allied naval bombardment forces the German forces to retire.
On the Eastern Front... The battle of Kursk continues. The southern battlefield continues to be active.
Just when I thought the war was getting boring. Moving up the Solomons with naval, air and ground fighting, the invasion of Sicily and Kursk.
A titanic world-wide struggle. I liked the cartoon of Hitler and Stalin playing the high-stakes game. It illustrates the way I’ve always looked at their struggle. But instead of cash and chips, it’s the bodies of their soldiers on the table.