Late News FAST PUSH ON RIGHT FLANK
Progress In Italy LONDON, September 27. * A communique from the Allied headquarters nt Algiers today states that the line of the Italian may be likened to a door, hinged just north of Salerno and swinging quickly up the east coast. The Eighth Army Ims captured the town of Cerlgnola, 12 miles across the Ofanto River and is breaking into the plain round Foggin. Forces further inland are also advancing. The Americans have captured two more towns. On the left flank of the Fifth Army the troops have been engaged in fierce hand-to-halid lighting with the Germans in the passes leading to the plain of Naples. On six airfields which were captured in Italy a total of 224 enemy aircraft fell into our hands, most of them intact or only slightly damaged, states another report from Algiers. It is also revealed that the total number of planes captvred in Sicily was 1200.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 2, 28 September 1943, Page 5
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