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Big Base is Yielded – 2-3
Nazi Plan to Trap Kharkov Armies Failed by Thin Soviet Rear Guard (Parker) – 3
8th Army Unit Drives North, Beats Off a Rommel Column (Middleton) – 4
War News Summarized – 4
R.A.F. Ripped 2,000 Plants, Million Germans Homeless – 5
A German Landmark Reported Hit in Air Raid (photo) – 5
Shells Rained on Solomons Bases in Night Raid by U.S. Navy Ships (Hailey) – 6
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones – 7-8

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/mar1943/f12mar43.htm

Soviets in danger of being cut off
Friday, March 12, 1943 www.onwar.com

Spring weather reveals last winters dead [photo at link]

On the Eastern Front... The fighting continues in Kharkov. The German command dispatches a unit eastward to Chuguyev in an effort to cut off Soviet forces to the south of Kharkov. Meanwhile, the Red Army occupies Vyazma as the German Army Group Center continues to retreat on a wide front.

In Tunisia... The 2nd New Zealand Division and the 8th Armored Brigade are secretly moved south from Medenine. They are being concentrated west of Wilder’s Gap in preparation for an outflanking move around the Mareth Line, across the Dahar region.