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September 16, 1943

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Headlines from September 16, 1943

Drastic Nazi Curbs Halt Vatican Radio

By the United Press

Gers curb Vatican radio

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DRAFT OF FATHERS NEED FOR VICTORY, ARMY, NAVY INSIST; Lieut. Gen. McNarney Tells Senators Exemption Would Disrupt Our Global Strategy

By C.p. Trussell

testifies on father draft need, Sen Mil Affairs Com

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SOVIET DRIVES GAIN; 200 Ukraine Towns Fall in Dash to Cut Off Crimean Outlet

By the Associated Press

USSR forces take Nezhin; capture deprives Gers of last ry line before Dnieper River; take Pokrovskoye and other towns near Zaporozhye; rept capture of Dyatkova, 20 mi from Bryansk; take Kuibyshevo, northwest of Mariupol; renewal of USSR attack on Smolensk seen; map

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Ships Pound Enemy Forces; U.S. Airmen and the Fifth Army in Action Against the Enemy in Italy

By Milton Bracker

Allies rept Capri Is capture

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Notable Births

1943Wang Houjun, Chinese footballer and manager (died 2012)^[†]

Wang Houjun was a Chinese international football player and coach.

1943James Alan McPherson, American short story writer and essayist (died 2016)^[†]

James Alan McPherson was an American essayist and short-story writer. He was the first African-American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and was included among the first group of artists who received a MacArthur Fellowship. At the time of his death, McPherson was a professor emeritus of fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Historical Events

1943World War II: The German Tenth Army reports that it can no longer contain the Allied bridgehead around Salerno.^[†]

The 10th Army was a World War II field army of the Wehrmacht (Germany).