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Attack Plans Set (Sulzberger) – 2-4
The 3-Power Declaration – 3
Churchill Feted at Teheran Party – 4
Text of Statement on Iran – 4
Blows ‘From East, West and South’ to Hit Hitler’s Dwindling Realm (map) – 5
First Quarter of 1944 Likely to See Fruition of the Teheran Strategy (Middleton) – 5-6
War News Summarized – 6
Battling in Italy (Bracker) – 7
Ukraine Railway is Cut by Russians – 8
Heavy Task Forces Strike in Pacific (Horne) – 9
Treaty-Port Life Wanes in Foochow (Atkinson) – 9
Submarines Sink 11 Japanese Ships – 9
The Attack: U.S. Landing Boats Speeding to Smoking Shores of Tarawa (photo) – 10
From the Commander in Chief to the General (photo) – 11
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 12-13

Editorials – 14-17
A Victory Conference
Sword of Stalingrad
German Propaganda
Westchester Budget
Railway Wages
Thoughts of Home
Plane vs. U-Boat
The Japanese-Americans
Topics of the Times
In the Nation: An Opportunity to Justify States’ Rights (Krock)

Letters to The Times – 18-19

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/dec1943/f07dec43.htm

Bomber Harris says he can win the war
Tuesday, December 7, 1943 www.onwar.com

British Lancaster bomber being loaded for a mission [photo at link]

In London... The Air Marshal Harris, commander in chief of RAF Bomber Command, tells his superiors that he believes he can win the war if he is supported in his continuing attacks on Berlin and other targets so that he can send off 15,000 Lancaster missions in the next few months. (In fact, Harris will be able to send 14,500 missions despite arguments about the effectiveness of the bombing.)

In Italy... The US 5th Army secures the Mignano gap and expands its offensive. The US 2nd and 6th Corps attack Monte Sammucro and San Pietro. There is determined German resistance. To the east, the British 8th Army attacks Orsogna.