[Homer_J_Simpson]

Rule of Air is Won – 2-3
Ships in Rabaul Bay Scurry but are Bombed into Flames (Kluckhohn) – 4
Reich’s Acts Cited (Bracker) – 5-6
Nazis Shrug at Act; Sneer at Badoglio – 6
War News Summarized – 6
Allies’ Advance Renewed in Italy – 7
Red Army Pierces Line above Crimea – 8
AFL Votes to Admit Lewis Mine Union (Stark) – 9
Pacific Strategy-IV (Baldwin) – 10
Moscow Bars Talk on Boundaries; Puts Victory First as Parley Topic (by W.H. Lawrence, now in Moscow) – 10
The Text of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones – 11-13
275 U.S. Fliers Win Awards in Britain – 13

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/oct1943/f14oct43.htm

USAAF calls off daylight raids on Germany
Thursday, October 14, 1943 www.onwar.com

A damaged B-17 falling from the sky [scary photo at link]

Over Germany... The American 8th Air Force conducts a raid on the German ball-bearing works at Schweinfurt. The force of 291 B-17 Flying Fortresses does considerable damage to the target but lose 60 planes with others damaged. The loss rate is too high to maintain so the USAAF abandons long-range, unescorted daylight raids.

On the Eastern Front... Soviet forces capture Zaporozhye. To the south, Red Army forces attack Melitopol. Still farther south, Soviet forces cut the railroad leading to the Crimea from Melitopol.

In Italy... The US 5th Army offensive continues. The 6th Corps continues to advance while elements of the British 10th Corps cross the river and continue to push forward. In the east, the Canadian 1st Division (part of British 13th Corps, 8th Army) captures Campobasso.