[Homer_J_Simpson]

13 Localities Free – 2-3
Air Pincers Move over Libya Opened (Middleton) – 3
Germans Killed in Norway Blast – 3
Convoy Rides Out 35 U-Boat Attacks (Post) – 4
War News Summarized – 4
Air-Borne Army Won Papua Despite Terrible Hardships (Durdin) * – 5
U.S. Troops at Work and Play on the New Guinea Front (photos) – 6
Allies Hit 2 More Japanese Ships; Gen. K.N. Walker Missing on Raid – 7-8
Foe’s Burma Bases Are Blasted Again – 8
Stilwell is eager for the Offensive (Atkinson) – 9
Gen. Agustin Justo Dies in Argentina – 10
Germany’s War Fuel (Baldwin) – 11
The Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 12-13

* A year and a half before the 101st went into action in Normandy the 32nd showed how airborne is done. And you don’t have to jump out of a perfectly good airplane to do it.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/jan1943/f11jan43.htm

Siege of Leningrad Partially Broken
Monday, January 11, 1943 www.onwar.com

Troops from Leningrad and the Volkhov Front celebrate the link up [photo at link]

On the Eastern Front... The siege of Leningrad, in the north, is partially broken. A narrow land corridor is opened south of Lake Ladoga by coordinated attacks from the Leningrad garrison and the Soviet Volkhov Front. In the Caucasus, in the south of the front, Soviet forces occupy Georgivesk, Pyatigorsk and Mineralnye Vody. Slightly to the north, Kuberle, on the railroad line from Zimovniki to Proletarskaya, falls as well.

In the Solomon Islands... On Guadalcanal, US forces take the “Sea Horse” position. The Japanese Gifu strongpoint continues to resist American pressure.