ning steady pressure on the retreating
enemy.
The Germans are fighting a stubborn
rearguard action.
A town on the South West Coast of England
has been attacked. One plane has
been destroyed. Bombs fell also in
other places. Whirlwinds with a Polish
Spitfire escort shot up ships near
Brittany. Gracie Fields flew home
from America yesterday.
12/8/1943 6.= pm. Robert Robinson
In Sicily for the second time a
landing force has landed behind the
enemy lines in the North. American
warships supported the action.
The direct attack on Randazzo is
meeting opposition. The 8th Army is
progressing along the Coast road.
Correspondents in Sicily say that the
Germans are evacuating Sicily.
For our bombers a new target was
found on the Italian mainland in
Terni, an important junction 40
miles North of Rome
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