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Italians Rejoicing (Brigham) – 2-3
Badoglio’s Proclamation to Italy – 2
Underground Set for Coup in Italy – 3
Fortresses Strike – 4-5
Polish Executions Put at 3,200,000 (Bracker) – 5
Italy’s Upheaval Comes as Boon to Greeks; Tremendous Policing Job Looms for Nazis – 5
Russians Take 70 Villages, Gain 6 Miles in Orel Drive (Werth) – 6
War News Summarized – 6
Americans Drive for Eastern Sicily (Middleton) – 7
The Situation in Italy (Baldwin) – 8
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 9-11

3 posted on 07/27/2013 3:41:27 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/jul1943/f27jul43.htm

Allied and Axis troops locked in combat
Tuesday, July 27, 1943 www.onwar.com

Allied artillery firing at night on Sicily [photo at link]

In Sicily... Heavy fighting takes place at Agira and Nicosia.

4 posted on 07/27/2013 3:43:33 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))