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Order Curbs Spies (MacDonald) – 2
20-Mile Gain – 3-4
Crafty Reich Plot Laid for Next War (MacCormac) – 4
War News Summarized – 4
4th Atoll is Seized in the Marshalls (Trumbull) – 5
Pope Asks All Belligerents to Spare Rome from Ruin (Brigham) – 5
Human Ballast at Ocean Bottom Helps Mulish ‘Pigboat’ Foil Nazis (Graham) – 6
Inertia is Laid to Army (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 8
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 9-10

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1944/mar44/f13mar44.htm

Soviets capture Kherson
Monday, March 13, 1944 www.onwar.com

On the Eastern Front... Troops of the Soviet 3rd Ukrainian Front (Malinovski) capture Kherson.

In the Solomon Islands... On Bougainville, US forces mount a counterattack, with armor and air support, and recapture most of the ground lost during the last few days.

In the Admiralty Islands... On Hauwei Island, the small US forces overrun the Japanese garrison. Artillery units are landed to support planned operations on Manus Island.

In Burma... General Scoones, British 4th Corps commander, authorizes the 17th and 20th Indian Divisions to pull back to Imphal. Scoones is supported by his superiors, Slim and Giffard, that reinforcements are required. Therefore, Mountbatten sends requests for the use of American aircraft, airlifting supplies to the Chinese, to redeploy the 5th Indian Division from the Arakan. Meanwhile, Japanese planes attack the “Broadway” airfield used by Chindit forces.