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Reconnaissance studies showed that four R.A.F. night raids, two U.S. daylight raids in July and August wrecked about nine sq. mi. (or 77%) of Hamburg, left that port a dead city...
...Sept. 9, the Fifth Army landed 175 mi. north of the nearest Eighth Army troops. As the first man ashore discovered, they landed exactly where the Germans expected them to land (see p. 28). Many British and American soldiers were killed. At the center of the 24-mi. beachhead, on the fifth day, the Germans drove within three miles of the sea, almost severing the invasion forces. Great heroism, strong naval and air support and reinforcements saved the landings. Ten days after the landings, three days after the crisis on the beaches had passed, the Eighth Army was arriving...
...Germans did not fight there. They would have been there, fighting hard, if they had not had to prepare for landings farther north, and the Allies might be struggling for their first toehold on Italy's tip instead of holding the Salerno area and the Sorrento peninsula. 20 mi. below Naples. The fact that the Germans expected the landing at Salerno cut no military ice; they presumably knew that the Salerno beaches, about as far north as the Allies could land and still be within fighter cover from Sicily, were logical points of attack...
...According to Stockholm, broke through the German defenses on the Velikie Luki front and sent a "Latvian Army of Liberation" toward the Latvian border, some 70 mi. away...
Goals. With its armies, as the week turned, within eight mi. of Melitopol, within 20 mi. of the Dnieper, 25 mi. of Smolensk, 35 mi. of Kiev and 115 mi. of the old Polish border, Moscow remained closemouthed. Yet the war maps spelled clearly the Red Army's immediate objectives: Smolensk, Kiev, the Dnieper, the Crimea...