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Allies Driving On (Bracker) – 2-3
Germans Continue Their Withdrawal (Matthews) – 3
War News Summarized – 3
Americans Blast Nazi Observation Post in Italy (photo) – 4
Two U.S. Officers Risked Death to Visit Badoglio on Invasion Eve (Lee) – 5
The Nazi Pictorial Version of ‘the Liberation’ of Benito Mussolini (photos) – 6-7
733 Places Seized – 8-9
Big Salt Bed Found in West Virginia – 9
M’Arthur Strong in Test by Gallup (Gallup) – 10
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 11-12

The News of the Week in Review
The Allies Win the First Round in the Battle of Italy (map) – 13
Twenty News Questions – 14
Allied Offensives Jar Hitler’s Fortress Europe (Baldwin) – 15-16
Mediterranean Theatre: Six Focal Areas (map) – 17
Our Big Job in Italy to Drive Out Germans (Bracker) – 18
Tactics Used at Lae Give Speedy Victory (Kluckhohn) – 19-20
Answers to Twenty News Questions – 20

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/sep1943/f19sep43.htm

B-24 bombers raid Tarawa
Sunday, September 19, 1943 www.onwar.com

Over the Gilbert Islands... American land-based Liberator bombers attack the island of Tarawa.

On the Eastern Front... Northeast of Smolensk, Soviet forces capture Yartsevo and Dukovschina.

In Italy... A British 8th Army unit (5th Division) takes Auletta.

In Occupied Greece... At Cephalonia, the Italian “Acqui” Division resists German forces seeking to disarm it.