25 World News Today

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But first, here's Doug Edwards. The top news today, Allied Air Action. British and American planes have showered tons of bombs tons of bombs on enemy targets in Western Europe, in the Mediterranean, in the South Pacific, and in China.

The RAF put on the biggest show with a record attack on Hamburg. Other Allied bombers flying the shuttle route from Britain to Africa blasted Italy's northwest coastal port of Leggen. On land, the Sicilian campaign has reached its final stages with a capture of tropane by the American 7th Army, and in Russia the Soviet tide rose on tortorel.

Now, I have no radio textured direct to Algiers. John Daly reporting. Tonight, and it's all that a night sign in the start of the world, the Army of the United Nations and nesting for the final battle of Sicily. The Axis is holding a line from 70 miles long running from below Katanya on Sicily Beach Coast inland for about 15 miles, an

un-arthing around Mount Etna to the northwest to Lido Buto. From there it turns north to and an Iranian sea on the Sicily North Coast. The Germans rode more than 30 miles of this from Kefanya to Higoduka.

The Italians rode the Red, the 30 miles of Red, northward to the Pyrenean Sea. In westerns, the American Seven Tarnies occupied Sapanese, the last four of any consequence on the Red Coast, the captured and additional 10,000 prisoners and a huge amount of boogie, including 200 guns.