[Homer_J_Simpson]

Foe Flees in Sicily (Bracker) – 2
Troina a Town of Horror, Americans Find on Entry (Matthews) – 3-4
Athens of Today is Shown in Film (Sedgwick) – 4
War News Summarized – 4
Milan, Turin, Genoa Raided; RAF Meets Weak Defenses (Graham) – 5
Soviet Unchecked – 6-7
Japan is Stopped, Says M’Arthur – 8
Japanese Murder of Wounded Told – 9
Allied Troops en Route to Nassau Bay and After a Successful Landing (photos) – 10-11
Trap Threatens Nazis (Baldwin) – 12
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 13-14
Books of the Times (by Orville Prescott) – 15

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/aug1943/f09aug43.htm

Danes reject German courts for suspects
Monday, August 9, 1943 www.onwar.com

Commandeered billets for German soldiers destroyed by the Danish resistance [photo at link]

In Occupied Denmark... The Danish prime minister, Scavenius, rejects a demand that suspected saboteurs be tried in German courts.

[henkster]

Japanese murder of the wounded was a pretty typical facet of the bitter fighting in the Pacific. Plenty of other examples abound. The Japanese captured an Australian soldier in New Guinea, tied him to a tree and used him for bayonet practice. They left him there with a note on his body that said “He took a long time to die.” American medics were a favorite target of the Japanese, so they learned quickly to go into combat without insignia, and armed. They more or less fought as infantry.

The stories of their fanatical and brutal resistance are becomming commonplace, and will eventually be accepted as a truism.

But revisionist left-wing historians would have us believe that two years from now they are “about to surrender.”

[joyce11111]

Thanks again, Homer....my folks thought a 9 year old reading war news was just horrid....at that time period in ‘43...

I was hospitalized for over three months, with burns...and had the daily news delivered to my room...so I was on my own there in my room doing what I pleased, much to their chagrin.

That is how I was able to read the whole newspaper, instead of just the funny papers.