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3 Unions Waiting (Stark) – 2
Army Held Ready to Man Railroads (Shalett) – 2-3
Russians Rip Lines (Lawrence) – 4-5
Most War Vehicles Go to Soviet; Bulk of Her 3 ½ Billion Lend-Lease – 5
War News Summarized – 5
Marines Approach Gloucester Field – 6
Many New Yorkers in First Wave as Marines Hit Cape Gloucester – 6
Bomb Accuracy in Clouds Mastered by 8th Air Force (Middleton) – 7
Doolittle to Guide Invasion Air Blow – 7
Ratio in Invasion is Fixed, Based on Full U.S.-British Blow – 8
Americans Mop Up Mount Sammucro (Bracker) – 9
The Invasion Commander in Chief Visits Italian Front (photo) – 9
Latest Casualties in Army and Navy – 10-11
Stone Age Tombs Found in Italy by U.S. Officer Digging Gravel – 11
‘Sleep New Year Eve’ ‘Work Jan. 1,’ M’Nutt – 11
A Grim Welcome for U.S. Navy Warship at Guadalcanal (photo) – 12
Duke of York Guns Hit Scharnhorst – 13-14
British Battleship that Helped Sink Scharnhorst (photo) – 13
Air Power and the War (de Seversky) – 15
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 16-17
2-Term Limitation Backed in Survey (by George Gallup) – 17

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/dec1943/f29dec43.htm

Red Army advancing west of Kiev
Wednesday, December 29, 1943 www.onwar.com

On the Eastern Front... Soviet forces retake Korosten and Chernakov, northwest of Kiev, and Skvira to the southwest.

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With all this talk of bombing “through clouds” I’ve been checking Berlin weather every now and then. It’s almost always cloudy with a temp around 40 and rain every second or third day. Seems the British have said to hell with it, we’ll just level the whole place.