Current Events December 5, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY DECEMBER 5, 1943:

Smashing forward behind an air and artillery bombardment so titanic that some German troops were driven insane, LA.Gen. Mark W. Clark's American and British 5th Army have broken into the heart of the enemy's winter line to a depth of two miles and are driving toward Rome "according to plan," the Allies announced Saturday

 Stepping up an aerial offensive against the western sector of New Britain Island, Liberators, Mitchells and Marauders have dropped 170 tons of explosives on the Japanese air base headquarters at Cape Gloucester, headquarters announced Sunday.

(See the  The World at War Last Week)

       SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, 

     SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 5, 1943

     HEART OF NAZI LINE CUT

 Fifth Breaks Into Heart
Of Nazi Winter Lines and
Drives on Toward Rome

By ALLIED HD.QRS.; ALGIERS, Dec. 4,-

Smashing forward behind an air and artillery bombardment so titantic that some German troops were driven insane, LA.Gen. Mark W. Clark's American and British 5th Army have broken into the heart of the enemy's winter line to a depth of two miles and are driving toward Rome "according to plan," the Allies announced Saturday.

 The thunderous bombardment which laid down a curtain of fire
in front of Clark's charging troops was described as one of the greatest in the history of warfare — perhaps even greater
than that which broke the German line at El Alamein in Egypt,
because it was concentrated on a smaller area.

Allies Bomb
New Britain
Base of Japs

by Associated Press

SOUTHWEST PACIFIC ALLIED HDQTRS. DEC 5, 

Stepping up an aerial offensive against the western sector of New Britain Island, Liberators, Mitchells and Marauders have dropped 170 tons of explosives on the Japanese air base headqunrlcrs at Cape Gloucester, headquarters announced Sunday.

 The World at War Last Week

 SUNDAY, Nov. 28—Another Japanese cruiser was destroyed and 13 enemy planes were downed by Allied planes in a sea-air battle off New Ireland and New Guinea in the South Pacific.
MONDAY, Nov. 29—Allied armies in Italy were on the march again as British forces pushed deep into the German lines and the Americans made ready for a big drive after being held up weeks by rain and mud.
TUESDAY, Nov. 30—Allied forces in Italy pushed deeper into the German lines. The Russians struck powerful blows at the Germans northwest of Gomel.
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 1—A massive double-barreled drive against the Germans in Italy was started by American and British forces. The Nazis threw more men and machines into the fight to halt advancing Russian armies. Allied plans for defeating and stripping, the Japanese of their stolen territory were laid at the conference in Cairo of President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.
THURSDAY, Dec. 2—The American 5th Army launched a full-scale offensive against the German winter line in Italy and the Nazis were reported in full retreat.
FRIDAY, Dec. 3—The greatest Allied offensive of the Italian campaign roared on with both the-5th and 8th armies smashing deep into the German lines. The Moscow radio announced the big three meeting of President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin at Teheran, Iran, has mapped the downfall of the Germans.

 SATURDAY, Dec. 4—The American Sth Army routed
German forces from their hilly emplacements and smashed
the main barriers on the road to Rome.