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While thrusts and counterthrusts continued in the Ukraine, the weight of the Russian attack shifted northward. There, on the fringe of the Pripet Marshes, General Konstantin Rokossovsky celebrated the first anniversary of his historic Stalingrad noose by stringing a similar noose around German-held Gomel. And from the areas farther north came new rumblings: perhaps the next big Red offensive will roll there...
...Punch. The Wehrmacht still fought with skill and fury but it could not deny victory to the Russians. What it desperately sought now was to survive as an army, establish yet another line of defense, prevent the infection of defeat from spreading northward. It remained a powerful fighting organism. But there were signs of decay. Behind the Russian lines straggled mobs of dejected prisoners. Except at a few picked points, the German defense in the south was confused and ill-directed...
...column of green-camouflaged destroyers and boxlike landing craft crept northward through the slot of the Solomons. New Allied invasions-of the tiny Treasury Islands, of Choiseul across the way, and eventually of Bougainville between them-were beginning. This triple play was to be an important operation, for heavily defended Bougainville was the last stop on the long road to Rabaul, Japan's main South Pacific base. TIME Correspondent William Chickering was aboard a ship bound for Treasuries, and he cabled...
General Mark Clark's British-American Fifth Army put on its raincoats. Day after day, as the Yanks and Tommies sloshed northward from Naples, the sky drenched the earth. The flat, brown Campania, hard and powder-dusty a fortnight ago, softened into a mire. Rivers swelled, spilled into the meadows along their banks...
...Took care to anticipate the likely damage to Rome by Allied forces, and opportunely exploited the fact that Pope Pius XII is in effect a Nazi-held prisoner. Said he: the Allied armies marching northward in Italy are on a kind of crusade to liberate Rome, the Vatican and Pope Pius XII. How much damage is done to the Eternal City, he indicated, will depend largely on the fight the Germans make...