[Homer_J_Simpson]

Danzig is a Target (Graham) – 2-3
Caserta Captured (Bracker) – 4-5
De Gaulle Tells of Corsican Visit – 5
Trieste Imperiled by Partisan Gains – 5
Stalin Hints Crimean Drive; Vitebsk-Nevel Gains Grow – 6
Baltic Evacuation Begun by Germans – 7
War News Summarized – 7
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 8-10

Arts and Entertainment
The Philadelphia Orchestra Pays Season’s First Visit (photo) – 11
Casals and the Bach Suites (by Maurice Eisenberg, first-time contributor) – 12
Notes Here and Afield – 13
Bulletin from Rio – 13

The News of the Week in Review
On All Fronts – 14-16
Other Fronts – 16-17
Twenty News Questions – 18
Blows Rain Upon the ‘Soft Under-Belly’ of the Axis (map) – 19
Hard Lessons Learned in Salerno Campaign (Bracker) – 20
A Pattern for Allied Drives against the Conquests of Japan (map) – 22
New Blows in Pacific Suggest Major Attacks (Baldwin) – 23
Germans, Expecting a Lull, Attacked on the Dnieper (Parker) – 24
Answers to Twenty News Questions – 25

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/oct1943/f10oct43.htm

American army in Italy attacking
Sunday, October 10, 1943 www.onwar.com

American troops enter an Italian village [photo at link]

In Italy... Elements of the US 5th Army enter Portelandalfo, north of Benevento.

On the Eastern Front... Soviet forces capture Dobrush, east of Gomel.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Is there a classical music ping list? If anyone knows of one please notify the keeper. I thought it was interesting to learn that Pablo Casals promoted the Bach cello suites from exercise piece to important performance works comparable to the Goldberg Variations. Before Yo Yo there was Pablo.

[henkster]

Seventy years ago the Times was a patriotic newspaper and Indiana kicked Nebraska's ass in football. those were the days....

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Casals and the Bach Suites (by Maurice Eisenberg, first-time contributor) – 12

Here is an added feature for anyone who comes to this post for WWII + 80 Years.

Pablo Casals - Bach Cello Suites