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Giant Lancasters, attacking the northern industrial heart of Italy, left "colossal" fires blazing at Turin and made their first swoop over Mussolini's naval base at La Spezia. R.A.F. bombers by night, U.S. Flying Fortresses and Liberators by day, flew over western Europe. They gave Hamburg its 95th plastering. They roared through the valley of the Ruhr. They swarmed over the U-boat base at Lorient, where ten acres of the naval arsenal have now been reported destroyed. Apparently unable to pierce the eleven-foot roofs of the concrete sub pens, the Allied bombers have concentrated on softer targets...
...Benito Mussolini last week fired his son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, the galloping gallant of Fascism, and took to himself the cabinet portfolios of War, Navy, Air, Interior, Foreign Affairs. Said Il Duce, explaining the dismissal of Foreign Minister Ciano and eleven other leading members of the Government...
...this delicate phase of the conflict," said Il Duce, "I, Mussolini, am assuming the entire burden of the conduct of political and military operations...
...Benito Mussolini had dialed in on NBC's short wave lengths last week, he might have heard Italy's greatest conductor direct some uncomfortably prophetic music by Italy's greatest composer. On Arturo Toscanini's Sunday afternoon broadcast, the Westminster Choir boomed cheerfully (in Italian) these words from Giuseppe Verdi's Hymn of the Nations...
Montgomery had shattered Mussolini's last vestige of Italy's African Empire. He had opened up a new base for British naval operations and a southern base for Allied ground and air forces from which the Axis' slipping grip on North Africa could be pounded and attacked. He had ended the longest chase in military history-1,300 miles in 13 weeks...