[Homer_J_Simpson]

This makes 1,500 consecutive days of news threads posted, going back to August 16, 1939/2009.

Retreat Reported (Bracker) – 2-3
Nazis Ask Air Aid to Quell Italians – 3
War News Summarized – 3
Germans in Italy are Using Tactics of Demolition Employed in Sicily (Matthews) – 4
On and Off the Beachhead Not Far from the Salerno Front (photos) – 5-6
Red Army Shells Smolensk; Drive Nears White Russia – 7-8
Nazi Europe Rocks in 24-Hour Bombing (Graham) – 8-9
Australians Gain Near Finschhafen (Kluckhohn) – 10
Sea Power-IV (Baldwin) – 11
Staged Roman Holiday at Expense of Nazis (photo) – 11
The Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 12-14
An Open Italian Beach is Their Refuge (front page photo) – 14

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/sep1943/f24sep43.htm

Australians rupture Japanese line
Friday, September 24, 1943 www.onwar.com

In New Guinea... The Australian 20th Brigade breaks through the Japanese defenses along the Bumi River. Finschhafen airfield is captured. Offshore, Japanese aircraft attack Allied shipping convoys with little effect.

On the Eastern Front... Soviet forces capture Borispol, east of Kiev. Farther north, German Army Group Center begins to evacuate Smolensk and Roslavl under pressure from Soviet forces.

[Rebelbase]

“This makes 1,500 consecutive days of news threads posted, going back to August 16, 1939/2009.”

Prodigious!