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...Frontal Assault. One hour after midnight the Battle of the Volturno began. From the river's south bank, on both sides of Capua, the Fifth's artillery laid down the heaviest barrage of the Italian campaign. In thinner volume the German guns spoke back. A bright moon silvered the darkness. Under it, shellfire flashed red, tracers brushed glowing orbits, mortars chopped the river into a watery hell...
Other air-front news: > Against the Fortress and Liberator formations, the Germans are trying new defensive tactics. Three planes abreast, coming head on, swing from left to right to avoid the frontal guns of the U.S. formations. It has not worked. > The Germans revealed hitherto unpublished information on U.S. tactics: the bomber formations are protected by other Fortresses that carry no bombs (presumably fill their bays with extra tons of ammunition to fire at German fighters. A Nazi newscast drew an eloquent picture of battle over Germany: "Thus more than 1,000 U.S. airmen, covered by armored planes, are defending...
...From Sevsk northward, to the rear of Bryansk, whose powerful defenses have held up Red frontal attacks for many days; or from Sevsk to Konotop, and thence to Kiev and the Dnieper...
Outlook. Since General Vandegrift's Marines made their frontal assault on Guadalcanal, the U.S. has learned much about island warfare. The new tactics are to surround the Jap bases in overwhelming force and in combined operation to squeeze the life out of them. Though the capture of Munda was somewhat behind schedule, the Japs were left no secondary retreats, would soon be cleaned up. Gen eral Vandegrift, with his spearhead of Amphibious Marines, looked forward to future operations conducted by "all of us, a highly cooperative team...
Lieut. Nicholas Kliebert, with 37 men, had gone to protect some wounded on the Munda trail. While they were holding a bridge against a frontal attack their three Browning automatics became overheated, could no longer be used. Later, in the presence of his commanding officer, Lieut. Kliebert told correspondents what happened next: "The Japs who got through to one of our litter cases propped the man against a tree and five Japs took turns bayoneting him. I got three of them. . . . We saw Japs pull blankets off litter cases and line them up. ... They cut one of the poor lads...