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Foe in Dual Peril (Bracker) – 2-3
War News Summarized – 3
Russians Massing on River; Menace Gomel and Orsha – 4-5
U-Boats are Back with New A-A Guns – 5-6
Avenger Strikes with Vengeance: Navy Pilot Accounts for Three Nazi Submarines in Four Days (photos) – 6-8
Allied Fliers Destroy Seven Ships, 60 Planes at Wewak, New Guinea – 9
Roosevelt Backs M’Arthur’s Stand – 9
Churchill Warns War May See 1945 (by Sally Reston, first-time contributor) – 10
Burma Rescue: After Head-Hunters Turned Life-Savers (photos) – 11
Wheeler Assails Bureau ‘Slackers’ (Trussell) – 13
‘Father Draft’ Mis-Called (Baldwin) – 14
New Ickes Dispute (Krock) – 14
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 15-16

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/sep1943/f29sep43.htm

Allies advance in Italy
Wednesday, September 29, 1943 www.onwar.com

US 5th Army troops search a house in Italy [photo at link]

In Italy... Elements the US 5th Army continue to advance. Elements of the US 6th Corps attack Avellino. The British 10th Corps reaches Pompeii.

In Malta... General Eisenhower and Marshal Badoglio sign the armistice agreement aboard the HMS Nelson in Malta harbor.

On the Eastern Front... Soviet forces capture Kremenchug. Farther north, Rudnya on the Smolensk-Vitebsk railroad, is also taken by Soviet forces.

In Occupied Italy... The uprising in Naples continues.