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Billboard Top Ten for the Week of September 11, 1943

#1 - “Sunday Monday or Always” - Bing Crosby, with the Ken Darby Singers
#2 – “You’ll Never Know” - Dick Haymes, with the Song Spinners
#3 - “In the Blue of the Evening” - Tommy Dorsey, with Frank Sinatra
#4 – “Paper Doll” - Mills Brothers
#5 - “All or Nothing At All” – Harry James, with Frank Sinatra
#6 – “You’ll Never Know” - Frank Sinatra, with the Bobby Tucker Singers
#7 - “I Heard You Cried Last Night” - Harry James, with Helen Forrest
#8 - “Pistol Packin’ Mama” - Al Dexter
#9 – “In My Arms” - Dick Haymes, with the Song Spinners
#10 - “It Can’t Be Wrong” - Dick Haymes, with Song Spinners

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Capital is Shelled – 2
War News Summarized – 2
Opposing Forces Rush for Positions in the Battle of Italy (front page map) – 3
Fifth Army Gains (Bracker) – 4-5
Allied Leaders Had Their Focus on the Invasion Point (photo) – 5
Roosevelt and Churchill Bid Italians to Strike at Nazis – 5
Allies See Italian Fleet Yielding; Nazis Say They Sank 2 Big Ships – 6
Hull Pledges Aid to Europe’s Jews – 6
Bound for Italy: Best Wishes as Allies Get Under Way on a Successful Journey (photos) – 7-9
Soviet Successes Pile Up in South – 10-11
Nazi Horror Raged in Donbas Retreat (Werth) – 11
More U-Boats Sunk in August than Allied Vessels in Convoys – 11
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 12-14