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...first five days of invasion, the U.S. Seventh Army seized and widened its bridgeheads in southwestern Sicily (TIME, July 26). On the night of July 15-16, the Seventh Army then began the northward push which culminated last week in the occupation of central and western Sicily...
Over the broad Midwest prairies the harvest spilled northward in a bright golden wave. Last week it brought its bounty to this little farm near Lincoln, Neb., where War Veteran Fred A. Liebers, his wife and their husky son grow wheat and oats, tend their dairy cows and chickens, and feed part of the world...
...Seven oil company truckers dropped their half-eaten hamburgers in the Liberty Café. Their loaded gas trucks were last seen roaring northward out Cimarron Street...
...blow is aimed in two directions-at Kursk from the area south of Orel, and from the Belgorod direction northward, also in the direction of Kursk. . . . It is sufficient to glance at the map to understand the operative plan of the German command. It envisaged the encirclement and annihilation of our troops along the arc of the Kursk salient...
Perhaps the time had come for Grand Admiral Doenitz' surface fleet to take a hand. Sweden reported that the Nazi fleet at Trondheim, Norway, had steamed northward to take over the Luftwaffe's task of attacking Allied convoys on the Murmansk run. A realistic view was that both the Germans and the Allies considered Southern Europe to be the next great theater of action, and that the Nazis were gathering their most effective forces -U-boats on the Atlantic approaches, aircraft over the Mediterranean-for a supreme test...