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...communiques told a now familiar tale: it was snail's progress by U.S., British, New Zealand, Canadian and Indian troops. They recorded the storming of a hill by cobelligerent Italians, who had been severely mauled in a first venture against their ex-allies (TIME, Dec. 20); for that success, General Clark sent congratulations. But most notable was the announcement that French soldiers were also in the line...
...from the Eighth. Montgomery attacked in the Montgomery manner. On a bridgehead across the swollen Sangro River he massed his British, Indian and New Zealand troops, some still bearing the tan of Africa and Sicily. Then he lined up his artillery. All one day the guns thundered; between breakfast and tea 50,000 shells gouged the Germans crouching behind mines and barbed wire on the ridge above the valley. Clearing weather enabled the Allied Tactical Air Force to help: nine waves of light bombers, 50 formations of fighters and fighter-bombers raked the enemy positions...
...efforts of Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa are depicted in a public exhibit of photographs and charts which will be on display at Robinson Hall throughout December...
...Fortnight ago, New Zealand-born Keith Palmer (Melbourne, Australia Herald and U.S. Newsweek) was killed and Associated Pressman Rembert James wounded when a Japanese bomb demolished a correspondents' tent on Bougainville Island. Palmer was the 15th British Empire reporter to be killed in World War II. U.S. deaths...
...Zealand supplied so much clothing to U.S. soldiers that she was forced to ration civilians to less than one full outfit per year...