Aids

j

In Western Europe
The Red Army is still sweeping across the plains ;

- Ukraine and its advance forces are nearing the Dnieper? §
In Italy, Allied armies invading Italy are overcoming 3
difficulties to sweep,upcoast. But the Nazis have as ¥
able to meet all Allied thrusts without withdrawing
from the vital eastern front. Throughout the United
most people echo the sentiments of Commander Ede
Young, R.N., who at Southport this week said that v
can be won by Christmas,” provided a land front i
in western Europe immediately. ‘Behind the thinly
fortifications on the other side of the English Channi
waiting 40,000,000 patriots to help us on to Berlin.” M
of people asked: What are we waiting for? :

Ps TRANCE RUT STS A

Top left—Tommy gunners of the Red Army advance on Smolensk as the Soviet 0

continues to sweep westward.

Middle left—This was one of the only six ships los
troops to Sicily.

Lower left—A jubilant populace welcomes Allied troops as they enter an Ttalia

Top right—Loaded with British and Canadian troops, these amphibious jeep:
their way across the Strait of Messina to the Italian mainland.

Lower right—Danish patriots defy Nazi terrorism to demonstrate in the st
Copenhagen.

t of the huge Allied fleet that