[Homer_J_Simpson]

Enna is Captured – 2
Eisenhower Sees Slower Advance (Matthews) – 3
War News Summarized – 3
British Navy Guns Aid Catania Fight (by Paul Kern Lee, first-time contributor) – 4
Tension in Rome Continues High – 4
Pius Tells of Plea (Brigham) – 5
Pope’s Letter on the Raid on Rome – 6
Nazi Base in Peril – 8
Germans in Soviet Bid Reich Revolt – 9
Harbor of Bairoko is Blasted in Record New Georgia Raid (Durdin) – 10
A New York Policeman Gives a Killer the Right of Way (photo) – 11
M-7 Tank Destroyer Goes on Display Here – 11
Kuriles Vulnerable (Baldwin) – 12
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 13-15

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/jul1943/f22jul43.htm

US troops take Palermo, Axis forces escape
Thursday, July 22, 1943 www.onwar.com

German soldiers fighting on Sicily [photo at link]

In Sicily... American forces enter Palermo and isolate 50,000 Italian troops in the west of the island. The Axis mobile forces, including most of the German forces, escape to the northeast corner of the island.

In the Aleutian Islands... US naval forces (2 battleships and 4 cruisers as well as lighter units) bombard Japanese held Kiska Island.