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German artillery is successful in bombarding Red Army positions south of Moscow, but that front is quiet.

The Japanese miss Communist 8th Route Army.

Mannerheim takes Leningrad after a second, and bloody, assault. Significant air and fleet support.

The Soviet Baltic Fleet has no friendly port to head for and is destroyed. Like the Black Sea fleet, it never left port.

A Japanese marine invasion of Queensland Australia fails.

The CW carrier fleet, trying to seize the initiative in the Med, take another opportunity to knock out the Italian fleet with a port strike.

Italian fighters attempt to stop the port strike, and though they do abort one bomber, the rest make it through.

Port attack results.

Here is the situation in W. Europe.

Here is N. Africa.

AXIS #10 JUL/AUG 43

Germany and Italy land, Japan combined.

Romanian air raid on Moscow.

Turkish ground strike SW of Penza.

More Japanese soldiers land on Phillipines and an infantry corps garrisons Eniwetok.

Italians occupy Ukraine as German units rail back to face the Allied army in the Netherlands.

Germans do an efficient job eliminating the Red Army pocket SW of Penza. The artillery cannot retreat and is also destroyed.

Dreaded 14 result for Yamamoto in northern China.[8|]

Turn ends on a 3. Partisans in China.

Partisans at Krivoy Rog.

Destroyed Jul/Aug 43

Bloodiest turn of the war, light Brit and American losses notwithstanding.

Reinforcements Sept/Oct 43.

Good news for the Germans in the west.

AXIS PRODUCTION JUL/AUG 43

German production pegged back by -5bp from Allied bombing, and partisans in Krivoy Rog.

Germany 44; 2x TERR, 2x INF, GARR, MOT, 4 pilots, 4x FTR2, FTR3, MECH, oil repair
Italy 14; INF, TERR, pilot, repair BB Littorio, TRS (1st), NAV3
Japan 24; INF, MIL, GARR, WAR, CV (2nd), 4 pilots, CVA1, FTR2, NAV3

Moving into position on the Dutch border ...