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Reich Port Bombed (Middleton) – 2-3
Deep U.S. Attack Pounds Augsburg (Callender) – 3
War News Summarized – 3
Nazis Lose in East – 4-5
Masaryk Explains Pact with Russia – 5
At Russian War Relief Dinner Here Last Night (photo) – 5
5th Army Batters San Vittore Gates (Bracker, Matthews) – 6
American Mortar Crew Moving Up to Strike the Germans in Italy (photo) – 7
Arawe Air Strip Won by Us; Cape Gloucester is Smashed (Kluckhohn) – 8
Japanese Dummy Artillery Found on Makin Island (photo) – 9
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 10-11

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/dec1943/f21dec43.htm

German Dniepr bridgehead eliminated
Tuesday, December 21, 1943 www.onwar.com

On the Eastern Front... Soviet forces eliminate a small German bridgehead on the east bank of the Dniepr, near Kherson. There is heavy fighting in the north near Zhlobin.

In Italy... The British 8th Army engages in heavy fighting on the approaches to Ortona; the US 5th Army is heavily engaged near Monte Sammucro.