[Homer_J_Simpson]

Trap Shut on Nazis (Parker) – 2-3
War News Summarized – 3
Nazis Admit Peril on Black Sea Wing – 4
How Price Levels Affect War Expenditures (chart) – 4
Fortresses and R.A.F. Raid Reich Around the Clock (MacDonald) – 5
14 Enemy Vessels are Destroyed by Allied Blows in Mediterranean – 6
Giraud Releases 27 Red Ex-Deputies (Middleton) – 6-7
Pacific Frays Go On (Wood) – 7
Test Near in Tunisia (Baldwin) – 9
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on on [sic] Fighting in Various Zones – 10-12
Gen. Vandegrift Gets Honor Medal for Victories Won on Guadalcanal (w/photo) – 12

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/feb1943/f05feb43.htm

Italian dictator fires foreign minister
Friday, February 5, 1943 www.onwar.com

Mussolini [photo at link]

In Rome... Mussolini dismisses Count Ciano from the Foreign Ministry and takes over responsibility for it himself.

On the Eastern Front... Soviet forces capture Stary Oskol and Izyum. In the Caucasus, they make successful landings at Myoshako and are repulsed at Anopa.