[Homer_J_Simpson]

Night Sea Battle (Kluckhohn) – 2
Somervell and Stilwell are in India to Help Mountbatten Plan Attack (Durdin) – 3
War News Summarized – 3
5th Army at River (Bracker) – 4-5
Pope Surrounded by Germans’ Guns (Brigham) – 5
Two Meetings Brought About by the War (photos) – 6
U.S. Planes Down 142 Nazis in Bremen-Vegesack Attack – 7
Fortress Escorts Punish Luftwaffe (Graham) – 7-8
Luftwaffe Hits London, U.S. Airmen Pound Germany (photos) – 8-9
Bridgehead Fight Rages at Dnieper – 10-11
Army Trucks on the ‘Highway to Victory’ (photo) – 11
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 12-13

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/oct1943/f09oct43.htm

German army escapes from the Kuban
Saturday, October 9, 1943 www.onwar.com

On the Eastern Front... In the Caucasus, the Germans complete their evacuation of the 17th Army from the Kuban Peninsula. About 255,000 troops, 27,000 civilians and army supplies are successful withdrawn to the Crimea. Soviet forces under Petrov complete the occupation of the Kuban Peninsula.

[Fiji Hill]

The name Frank Kluckhohn caught my attention. He'll be showing up on the paperback shelves of bookstores in a few years when he writes these books.

• America, Listen!: an Up-to-the-Minute Report on the Chaos in Today's Washington, the Fumblings of the Kennedy Administration, the Search for Power : the Image Building : the Wielding of Influence on Business and the Press (Derby, Conn., Monarch, 1963)

• What's Wrong With US Foreign Policy? (Derby, Conn.: Monarch, 1963)

• The Naked Rise of Communism (Derby, Conn.: Monarch, 1962)

• The Inside on LBJ (Derby, Conn.: Monarch, 1964)

• Lyndon's Legacy: A Candid Look at the President's Policy Makers (New York: Devin-Adair, 1964)