[Homer_J_Simpson]

Crag-to-Crag Fight (Bracker) – 2-3
Planes Take Hand in Cassino Battle (Sulzberger) – 3
Nazis Introduce Their ‘Bazooka’ into the War in Italy (photo) – 3
Iron City Menaced (Parker) – 4
Ranger Sank Five Nazi Ships after Hitler had ‘Sunk’ Her – 5
Ranger’s Planes Attacking Nazi Ship in Norway (photo) – 5
Ranger’s Captain Admires Medal Hitler Awards for Not Sinking Ships (photo) – 6
Japanese Warships Quit Rabaul; Submarine, 19 Zeros in New Bag – 7
War News Summarized – 7
Kwajalein Gives Us Area Control (Trumbull) – 8
Britain Rebuffs Bombing Critics (Middleton) – 8
January Ship Loss to U-Boats ‘Lowest’ – 8
Operating Room off the Marshalls is Aboard a Troop Transport (photo) * – 9
Latest War Casualties – 10
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones – 11-12
Says Taxes, Bonds Burden Office Help.

* I hope the surgeon at least has showered recently. Nice tat on the scrub nurse – HJS.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1944/feb44/f10feb44.htm

Australians link up with Americans
Thursday, February 10, 1944 www.onwar.com

American toops in New Guinea [photo at link]

In New Guinea... Australian forces advancing from Sio link up with American forces near Saidor. Allied forces now occupy most of the Huon Peninsula.

On the Eastern Front... Soviet forces of the 1st Ukrainian Front (Vatutin) capture Shepetovka.

[Vaquero]

went to a parochial Catholic grade school in the 1950s/60s. the nuns who were for the most part conservative but apolitical at the same time, were very upset when discussing it in history class. They felt that the allies should have found a way around Casino rather than reduce it to rubble. Of course the US spent whatever was needed to rebuild it.

in other news, in 1962 my 8th grade nun, told us that Kennedy could never(would never) sign a bill permitting abortion. as it was he never had that decision on his desk.

[Tax-chick]

Nice tat on the scrub nurse ...

Heh, that made me look!

[BroJoeK]

Page 9 headline: "BRITAIN REBUFFS BOMBING CRITICS
Cranborn Says Attacks Will Go On, After Clergymen Denounce RAF Actions"

"The British bombing offensive against German cities, generally considered to be the heaviest assault yet mounted by the United Nations against the interior of the Reich will continue 'in increasing power' and 'with more crushing effect,' Viscount Cranborne, Government leader, told the House of Lords today in an emphatic Government reply to a sharp attack by the Bishop of Chichester, the Rev. Dr. George K.A. Bell, on the ethis and expediency of the heavy bombing of German towns and cities..."

The article lists both pros & cons for bombing German cities, leaving out some that, to later historians seem as, or more, important.
Chief among these is the fact that to defend its cities, Germans withdrew huge manpower and material resources from other fronts -- particularly in the East.
That effectively made allied bombing another "Second Front" Stalin kept asking for.

But in the end, those churchmen got their "last laugh", since once the bombings' purpose was accomplished, Churchill's government eventually turned against the bombers themselves, both to mollify the churchmen and in hopes of allying with post-war Germans against Stalin's Soviet Union.