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Pact Goes to WLB (Stark) – 2-3
Text of Contract by Ickes and Lewis – 2
Prosecute Lewis, Says Senator Byrd – 3
Our Top Air Blow (Middleton) – 4
Allies in Control of Massico Ridge (Bracker) – 5-6
Where There is Plasma There is Life (photo) – 6
Russians 13 Miles from Kherson; Pincers Grip Crimea, Nazis Report – 7-8
Madrid Resumes Gestures to Axis – 8
M’Arthur Men Hit 26 Ships, Smash 85 Japanese Planes (Kluckhohn) – 9
Swedes See Doom of Nazi Peace Hope – 10
A Prelude to the Drive on Bougainville (photo) – 10
War News Summarized – 11
56% of Combat Generals are Below 50; Radio is 64% in Separate Air Forces – 11
Wright Field Holds Great Air Secrets (Baldwin) – 12
The Text of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones – 13-14
Britons with Hearty Appetites Find ‘Pubs’ and State Restaurants Best (MacDonald) – 14

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/nov1943/f04nov43.htm

Red Army strikes toward Kiev
Thursday, November 4, 1943 www.onwar.com

On the Eastern Front... Soviet forces commanded by Vatutin break out of their bridgeheads over the Dniepr River, near Kiev. To the south, Soviet forces are attacking near Kherson.

In the Bismarck Archipelago... A new Japanese squadron led by Admiral Kurita arrives in Rabaul, New Britain Island. The Japanese force consists of 10 cruisers and 10 destroyers. American reconnaissance sights the squadron en route and Task Force 38 prepares to attack with its carrier aircraft.

In Italy... Forces of the US 5th Army continues. The British 10th Corps holds Monte Massico and Monte Croce and moves against Monte Camino with 78th Division. The US 6th Corps captures Venafro and Rocavirondola as it advances to the German defenses of the Reinhard Line. The British 8th Army has the Germans withdrawing to the Sangro River. The Allied armies now have full lateral communications through Isernia.