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Over the Wire--

Allies Pound South Europe

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa--More than 400 American and British planes, clamping an serial pincers on the Axis from French Africa and the Middle East, pounded 16 target areas stretching 700 miles from Greece to Sardinia yesterday in what was described officially as a "terrific hammering" of Southern Europe's crumbling invasion defenses.

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