[Homer_J_Simpson]

The first of these excerpt is continued from August 17. The second is continued from yesterday. The third is continued from August 10. The last one (from the King of Greece) is not continued from an earlier post.

Winston S. Churchill, Closing the Ring

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Record Day in Air – 2-3
War News Summarized – 3
Red Star Says Allies Lost an Opportunity; Renews 2d Front Call; Minimizes Sicily – 3
General Hails Men (Bracker) – 4
Fight for Parole Renewed by Hines – 4
Germans Quitting Calabria Foothold – 5
Americans’ Way Lit by Full Moon on Last Night of Battle for Messina (Matthews) – 6
Looting by the Citizens of Catania After Downfall of the City (photo) – 7
Russians Resume Kharkov Advance – 8
Russian Offensive in Critical Stage (Middleton) – 9
Eden Joins Quebec Parley; Political Phase is Reached (Crider) – 9-10
Allied Plans Seen Speeded by Events (Daniell, Pertinax) – 10
Nazi Evacuation of Sicily (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 13
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 14-16
U.S. Ploesti Fliers Feted in Rumania (by C.L. Sulzberger) – 16