[Homer_J_Simpson]

Vital Highway Cut – 2-3
Key Bases Blasted (Sedgwick) – 3
Captives Outnumber Captors in Ghost Town of Castelforte (Bracker) – 4
Russian Bombers Hit 3 Rail Depots – 5
War News Summarized – 5
Chinese Break Foe’s Hold on Peiping-Hankow Route – 6
Desperate Enemy Delays Stilwell (Durdin) – 6
Allied Forces Win in Burma and India – 7
Rocket Guns Enter Air War in Pacific – 7
Still Cleaning Up (photo) – 7
Air Power and the War (de Seversky) – 9
French Clergy Ask Curbs on Bombings – 9
Our Amphibious Fleet (Baldwin) – 10
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 11-12
Books of the Times (by Orville Prescott) – 13
Wagner to Speak at Liberal Parley – 13

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1944/may44/15may44.htm#

Allies break the Gustav Line
Monday, May 15, 1944 www.onwar.com

In Italy... German defenses on the Gustav Line begin to collapse. Attacks by the US 5th Army continue to make gains. The French Expeditionary Corps captures San Giorgio. To the north, the British 13th Corps reaches Pignaturo. The Canadian 1st Corps is inserted into the line to exploit this advance.

In the Soviet Union... The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Sergei dies at age 77.