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Grip on Kwajalein (Horne) – 2-3
Fleet Confident on Way to Atoll (Trumbull, Johnston, Eugene Burns, first-time contributor) – 3
Japanese Stress Peril to Homeland – 4
Marshall Islands Base Where We Have Established Beachhead (page 1 photo) – 4
The War in the Pacific Moves into a New Phase with the Occupation of Islands in the Marshalls (photos) – 5-7
War News Summarized – 6
Twin Gains in Italy (Bracker) – 8
Airfield Bombings in Italy Continue – 8
Eisenhower Meets with Aides Who Will Assist Him in Directing New Invasion (photo) – 9
Kingisepp is Taken in Red Army Sweep – 10
Izvestia Calls Pope Pro-Fascist; Says Catholics are Disillusioned – 11
War Plants Getting First Atrocity Posters of Army in This War, Charging ‘Murder’ – 12 The Army Depicts the Execution of the Tokyo Raiders (poster) - 12 The Soldiers’ Vote (Krock) – 14
Air Power and the War (by Alexander de Seversky) – 14
The Marshalls Landing (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 15
President Asserts Japanese will Pay (by John H. Crider) – 15
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 16-17
A Silent Reunion on Tarawa (photo) – 17

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1944/feb44/f02feb44.htm

Soviets enter Estonia
Wednesday, February 2, 1944 www.onwar.com

On the Eastern Front... In the north, Soviet forces advance beyond the former Estonian border and capture Vanakula. In the south, the Soviet 3rd and 4th Ukrainian Fronts attack the salient around Nikopol, held by forces of the German 6th Army (part of Army Group South).

In the Marshall Islands... Battles continue in the Kwajalein Atoll. American forces complete the conquest of Roi and Namur. Almost all of the 3700 Japanese defenders on these islands have been killed. American casualties number 740 killed and wounded. Japanese forces on Kwajalein continue to resist.

In Italy... Allied attacks around Anzio end. They have suffered high losses without significant success. Defending German forces, however, have had to postpone counterattacks planned to begin today because of their own losses.