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Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Kursk and Vicinity 1943: Battle of Kursk, 4 July-1 August 1943
Sicily, 1943: Italo-German Counterattack, 11 July and Allied Advance, 12 July-17 August 1943
South Pacific Area Operations: Capture of New Georgia, 21 June-27 August 1943
New Guinea Force Operations: Capture of Salamaua and Lae, 29 June-16 September 1943
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941: Status of Forces and Allied Theater Boundaries, 2 July 1942
India-Burma, 1942: Allied Lines of Communication, 1942-1943
Cartwheel, the Seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls, and Concurrent Air and Naval Operations, 30 June 1943-26 April 1944

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Port City Periled (Middleton) – 2-3
People of Sicily Welcome Allies (Gunther) – 3
Foe’s Sicilian Lines Ravaged as Allies Destroy 42 Planes (Matthews) – 3
When Each Second Counted: Allied Soldiers in Their Opening Operations on the Sicilian Battlefront (photos) – 4-6
General Patton Waded Ashore to Battle (by Noel Monks, first-time contributor) – 7
War News Summarized – 7
U.S. Troops Landing in Sicily Under Enemy Fire (photo) – 8
The Commander in Chief Invades Sicily in Person (photo) – 8
Russians Win Back Towns in Attacks – 9
51 Nazis Downed in Raids on France – 10
Munda Battle Settles Down to Test of Allied Guns Against Defenses – 11
Pacific Initiative Save, Nimitz Says (Trumbull) – 11-12
Sicilian Gains Widen (Baldwin) – 14
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones – 15-17