World War II Chronicle: August 14, 1943
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Front page: the Italian government has declared Rome an open city after this week’s bombing raid… On Sicily, Mount Etna is in Allied hands and the Axis forces are in full withdrawal mode. A map on page two shows the lines, and for reference, the Strait of Messina is about one or two miles wide at the tip of Sicily… A German soldier is pictured on the bottom of page three holding a captured American bazooka. The Germans will develop their Panzerschreck anti-tank weapon from the bazooka, but make their weapon bigger. The bazooka fires a 60-mm diameter rocket while the Panzerschreck‘s projectile is 88 millimeters…
George Fielding Eliot discusses the upcoming conference between Roosevelt and Churchill on page six… Locals have bought nearly $100,000 in War Bonds in honor of local boy Wilmeth Sidat-Singh who starred at Syracuse before serving as a District police officer and then becoming a Tuskegee Airman. Sidat-Singh served in Precinct 13, whose police officers are pictured on page 11 buying war bonds. He was killed on a training flight shortly after graduating flight school… Sports on page 18, and Chicago White Sox shortstop Luke Appling has joined the 2,000-hit club.
Evening star. (Washington, D.C.), 14 August 1943. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
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