World War II Chronicle: September 4, 1943
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Yesterday, Capt. Timothy Cleary has become the first American to land on mainland Italy. Cleary is an spotter for the big 155-mm. “Long Tom” guns and crossed the Strait of Messina with elements of Gen. Bernard Montgomery’s Eighth Army… Col. John R. “Killer” Kane has been awarded the Medal of Honor for his role in the bombing raid on the Romanian oil fields last month (see page three)…
George Fielding Eliot column on page four… A soldier tells about an operation to capture a town in the early days of the North African campaign on page five… Sports on page 16.
Evening star. (Washington, D.C.), 4 September 1943. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
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