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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

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/aug1943/f19aug43.htm

Allies negotiating Italian surrender
Thursday, August 19, 1943 www.onwar.com

Italian and Allied representatives negotiate Italy’s surrender [photo at link]

In Lisbon... Italians have approached the Allies about negotiating a surrender. General Bedell Smith, General Eisenhower’s Chief of Staff, and General Strong, his chief of intelligence, arrive to continue talks with approaches to the British ambassador, Sir Samuel Hoare. The leading Italian representative is General Castellano.

From Berlin... Luftwaffe General Jeschonnek, the Chief of Staff, commits suicide after criticism for the Peenemunde and Schweinfurt raids.

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Note the empty chair next to Mackenzie King in the front page photo. Did Clint Eastwood set up that picture?