[Homer_J_Simpson]

As you can see, the ugly vertical lines are back, disfiguring all copy in the 2nd column from the left of any page. The good news is that it is a short-term problem. It will disappear somewhere between the news section and News of the Week in Review on Sunday, June 18.

Officials Rebuked (Crider) – 2
Biscari Captured (Matthews) – 3
17 Yanks in 2 Jeeps Take Ragusa; Save Wounded Fliers in Hospital (by Clinton Green, first-time contributor) – 4
Big Raids Reduce Messina to Ruins (Middleton) – 4
The Sicilian Push: Additional Photographic Reports of the Allied Drive on Strategic Italian Island (photos) – 5-7
War News Summarized – 7
Red Army Drive On – 8
Mubo, New Guinea, Taken; U.S. Destroyer Gwin Lost (Durdin) – 9-10
Pacific Gains Growing (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 11
Disloyal Japanese to Be Segregated – 11
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 12-14

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/jul1943/f16jul43.htm

Allies advancing in east and west
Friday, July 16, 1943 www.onwar.com

British advances are reinforced by armor [photo at link]

In Sicily... The US 3rd Division attacks Agrigento and Porto Empedocle. The Canadian 1st Division captures Caltagirone advances toward Piazza Armerina. The British 50th Division crosses the Simeto River. Its bridgehead is later reinforced by armor.

From London and Washington... Roosevelt and Churchill issue a joint statement calling for an Italian surrender and the overthrow of Mussolini.

In Italy... Fascist politicians begin plotting the removal of Mussolini.

On the Eastern Front... The German withdrawal on the southern neck of the Kursk salient continues under Soviet pressure.