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Nazis Cross Strait – 2-3
Air, Sea Guns Cover New Sicily Landing (Bracker) – 3-4
Dawn Attack Behind Enemy Lines in Sicily (front page photo) – 3
Fierce Resistance from Germans Met in U.S. Landing in North Sicily (Cunningham) – 4
Chuguyev is Taken – 5-6
Milan Fired in Heavy Raid; U.S. Fliers Hit Nazi Plants – 6
Our Forces Strike Heavy Blows from the Air at the Axis in Italy (photos) – 7-8
Our Fliers Depend on Service Branch (Graham) – 9
Open Resistance to Badoglio Rises; Paper Sees Revolt if War Goes On (Brigham) – 9-10
Correspondent [Herbert L. Matthews] Appeals to Italians Not to Let Germans Fortify Towns – 10
War News Summarized – 10
Exiles Perturbed Over French Issue (Middleton) – 11
Purge Body Set Up by Algiers French – 11-12
Moehne Raid Hero Seeks Japan Job (Philip) – 12
Argentina Widens Her War on ‘Reds’ (by Arnaldo Cortesi) – 12
Russia-II (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 13
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 14-15

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/aug1943/f13aug43.htm

Churchill and Roosevelt meet in Canada
Friday, August 13, 1943 www.onwar.com

Canadian Mountie color guard waits the arrival of the delegates at the first Quebec Conference [photo at link]

In Canada... The Quebec Conference begins. British and American military leaders meet in Quebec. They are joined by Roosevelt and Churchill to discuss Allied strategy.

Over Borneo... The US 5th Air Force raids the oilfields at Balikpapan with 380 planes from bases in Australia.

On the Eastern Front... Red Army forces close in on Kharkov, taking Bolshaya and Danilovka. An new Soivet offensive toward Smolensk results in the capture of Spas-Demensk, west of Kirov.