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Air Battles Fierce (Graham) – 2
Arnold Sees Reich Bombed ‘Groggy’ – 2-3
War News Summarized – 3
Key City Entered – 4
Roosevelt Gives Full Plans for Invasion to Eisenhower (Crider) – 5
8th Army Sets Up New Bridgehead (Bracker) – 6
5 U-Boats Sunk, 3 Crippled, in 2-Day Battle in Atlantic – 7
Texts of Day’s War Communiques – 9-10
Helped Drive Out the Nazi Invader (photo) – 10

The News of the Week in Review
“Operations will be taken from the east, west and south.” (map) – 11
White War and Red – 12-13
On the Fronts – 13-15
Fifteen News Questions * – 16
Quotations – 16
Allied Power Tells in the Southwest Pacific (map) – 17
Invasion of Marshalls Near, All Signs Indicate (Shalett) – 18
Winter to See Climax of Air War on Reich (Middleton) – 19
Answers to Fifteen News Questions – 19
Grand Strategy for 1944 Settled (Baldwin) – 20

* Rationing.

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/dec1943/f12dec43.htm

Czech president visits Stalin
Sunday, December 12, 1943 www.onwar.com

In Moscow... Dr Benes, President of the Czechoslovakian government in exile in London, visits to sign a Czech-Soviet treaty of alliance providing for postwar cooperation and mutual assistance for the duration of the war.

In Italy... The US 5th Army attacks continue. The US 36th Division of the 2nd Corps attacks Monte Lungo, near its former positions on Monte Maggiore.