Current Events September 27, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY SEPTEMBER 21, 1943:

Smashing a 10-mile deep salient into the mountains, Americans of Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's Fifth army have captured the town of Cassano, 50 miles due east of Naples, Allied Headquarters announced today.
As a, result the Germans began a withdrawal in the Naples sector flanking their positions around, the broad- Bay- arid -.-port, and offered only rearguard opposition

—Japanese defenders of Finschhafen, their hands already more than full in coping: with Australian troops at their very doorstep, today stood the imminent and additional risk of
being swept up from all side

American loses at Salerno numbered 3,497 men killed, wounded or missing
up to the, time Allied forces took the initiative Sept.. 16.
A War department announcement said the period covered, about a week, included the time during which
German forces attacked Allied beachheads in counter thrusts. The announcement pointed out, however, that the losses were far less than claimed by the Germans, who .said Sept. 14 that 8,000 to 10,000 Americans were killed and an equal number captured in the Salerno action.
American casualties in the 38-day Sicilian campaign totaled 7.445 killed, wounded and missing. Total Allied
casualties in Sicily were 31,158----

             The Portsmouth Herald
      PORTSMOUTH, N. H., MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 27,1943
Kiev under Siege by Red Army Guns
FIFTH ARMY TAKES TOWN EAST
OF NAPLES; NAZIS RETREATING
Defenders of Finschhafen Surrounded by Allies
Cassano
Falls to
Yankees
Allied Headquarters in North Africa, Sept 27 (AP)
Smashing a 10-mile deep salient into the mountains, Americans of Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's Fifth army have captured the town of Cassano, 50 miles due east of Naples, Allied Headquarters announced today.
As a, result the Germans began a withdrawal in the Naples sector flanking their positions around, the broad- Bay- arid -.-port, and offered only rearguard opposition.
Simultaneously, the British Eighth army of Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery drove rapidly up the east coast to within 22 miles of the airport center of Foggia. capturing the Adriatic towns of Cerignola and Margherita di Savoia, the latter a large salt manufacturing center.
The British, after crossing the Ofanto river which empties into the Gulf of Manfredonla, were meeting only the slightest resistance and were seeping along oil straight roads across fiat open country which extends to 30 miles beyond Foggia.
The troops of Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark also captured Calabrltto, mountain community 27 miles Inland
northeast of Salerno. Muro, 18 miles northwest of Potenza and 32 miles east of Salerno in the central sector, also fell to British forces.


Japanese
Defenders
Near End
Allied Headquarters in the
Southwest Pacific, Sept. 27 (AP)
—Japanese defenders of Finschhafen, their hands already more than full in coping: with Australian troops at their very doorstep, today stood the imminent and additional risk of
being swept up from all sides.
Hardly more than 20 miles to the rear of their position on the northeastern tip of New Guinea -was another
Allied force pushing steadily eastward along the shore of the Huon gulf from captured Lae.
On their land flank, 10 miles or less distant, was still a third Allied ground element, a section of the
Australian jungle troops who de-------

Yank Losses
At Salerno
Total 3,497
Washington, Sept. 27 (AP) —
American loses at Salerno numbered 3,497 men killed, wounded or missing
up to the, time Allied forces took the initiative Sept.. 16.
A War department announcement said the period covered, about a week, included the time during which
German forces attacked Allied beachheads in counter thrusts. The announcement pointed out, however, that the losses were far less than claimed by the Germans, who .said Sept. 14 that 8,000 to 10,000 Americans were killed and an equal number captured in the Salerno action.
American casualties in the 38-day Sicilian campaign totaled 7.445 killed, wounded and missing. Total Allied
casualties in Sicily were 31,158----

Russian
Cannon
At Kiev

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( A look ahead:  This was reported, MASON CITY. IOWA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11 1944)ROBOT BARRAGE
HITS LONDON
No Disclosure If New
V-2 Rockets Included
By ROBERT DAWSON
London, (UP.)—
The Germans loosed an Armistice day barrage of robot bombs against London and southern England early Saturday but censorship prevents disclosure whether they included any of the huge new V-2 rockets.
Night fighters, anti-aircraft juns, and even a gunner aboard North Sea trawler destroyed many V-l jet-propelled robots before they could dive to earth, but some got through and crashed in scattered areas.
Coastal watchers reported great, fiery glows and loud explosions from the sea, touching off speculation
that some of the planes from which the Germans have been launching V-I's recently also had been shot down.
Many pieces ot the explosive V-2 rockets which have hurtled down on southern England from an altitude of 60 to 70 miles in the past few weeks have been recovered. From these, experts may be able to piece together a composite rocket and devise counter-measures.
The official German DNB agency said the nazi command still was experimenting with V-2 to get the proper range for London,
                                                                     Paris, and Antwerp.
Eye witness stories of V-2 attacks were pouring in from southern England. Mrs. B. Sturgess, who was in
a house 30 yards from where one rocket fell, said she thought the' "end of the world" had come