[Homer_J_Simpson]

We Lose 32 Craft (Graham) – 2
Planes from Africa Bomb Greece, Crete and Rhodes (Bracker) – 3-4
Italy Drive Gains – 4-5
Victorious Doughboys Advancing through Captured Italian Town (photo) – 5
Time Bomb Kills Twelve in Naples Just before Clark Goes to Mass (Matthews) – 6
War News Summarized – 6
Russians Win Hill West of Dnieper – 7
61 Enemy Planes Wrecked at Wake (Trumbull) – 8-9
U.S. Forces Occupy Vila in Solomons – 9
Eaker Forecasts Channel Invasion – 9
Lieut. Winant Lost in Muenster Blow – 11
Pacific Strategy-I (Baldwin) – 11
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 12-13
Churchill and Eden Confer with Sforza, Whose Arrival in Algiers is Expected Soon – 13

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/oct1943/f11oct43.htm

British army in Italy regrouping
Monday, October 11, 1943 www.onwar.com

General Montgomery commanding British 8th Army [photo at link]

In Italy... The British 8th Army (Montgomery) regroups. Both 5th and 13th Corps are now deployed at the front.

On the Eastern Front... Soviet forces capture Novobelitsa on the outskirts of Gomel.

[kimtom]

We Lose ....
actual losses..?

claims on both sides of conflict usually were inflated...

[henkster]

The map of the central section of the Eastern front shows the line running east of the Dnieper. With the exception of the northern and southern wings of the map, this line will remain unchanged until June 22, 1944. The Soviet offensive in this sector has pretty much petered out, after having suffered very heavy casualties for not much ground gained and no decisive penetrations of the German front.

The Soviets brushed these unpleasant facts under the rug in their official histories. The Soviet front commander, Vassily Sokolovsky, later rose to high rank in the post-war Soviet armed forces. He was Zhukov’s successor as Soviet “viceroy” in East Germany, Deputy Minister of Defense, and Chief of the General Staff. From these lofty political appointments he made sure the histories were scrubbed of his failures as a field commander.