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City Burning Again (Middleton) – 2
War News Summarized – 2
Rail Hub Retaken (Lawrence) – 3-4
Czechoslovak Fighters Receive Awards from Soviet (photo) – 4
Allies Sink Three Destroyers and Reich Blockade Runner (Anderson) – 5-6
Survivor Depicts Scharnhorst’s End – 6
Doenitz in Disfavor over Scharnhorst – 6
Britons to Direct Joint Sea, Air Arms – 7
Names to Invasion Command (photos) – 7
Huge Invasion Supplies Needed to Step Up War Production in ’44 – 7
Canadians Seize Ortona and Go On (Bracker) – 8-9
Pacific Meeting that Preceded Our Present Drive (photo) – 9
Marines Toss Fire at Gloucester Foe – 10
Nazis Say British Raided Sark Isle – 10
Signal Corps Stations Beat the Borealis and Help Speed Plane Traffic Overseas – 11
Latest War Casualties – 14
The Text of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various War Zones – 15-16

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/dec1943/f30dec43.htm

Marines capture airfield at Cape Gloucester
Thursday, December 30, 1943 www.onwar.com

In the Bismarck Archipelago... On New Britain, the US marine division captures the Japanese airfield at Cape Gloucester.

On the Eastern Front... Soviet forces capture Kazatin, near Berdichev, in the advance west of Kiev.

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