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...really worries about what happens to public funds, went farther, much farther, to find out. Last January, factory managers throughout the East and Midwest began to get visits from a mop-haired, jug-shaped man who began: "My name is Engel. I am a member of Congress representing the 9th District of Michigan. I am here to have you educate me so I can do a better job in spending your money. I have a right to ask, and shall expect your fullest cooperation. I want facts, just facts...
...never got through, and to this extent El Guettar was a failure. The fault was not with the 1st Division, which took all its objectives on schedule. It was partly the fault of the 9th, which took ridge after ridge only to leave pockets of the enemy in its rear. The Germans had mortars sunk in gullies which could be captured only by hand-to-hand combat. They had heavy artillery which covered the hills on both sides of the pass and the valley between. And they had observation posts on the highest peaks which could direct their fire anywhere...
...Mateur, Bizerte. One criticism made of U.S. troops is that they do not begin to fight their best until they get mad. If that is true, what happened to the 9th Division at El Guettar and to the 34th at Fondouk (or perhaps what was said about them) made them first-class divisions. The history of the last three weeks of the Tunisian campaign, of Hill 609 and Mateur and Bizerte, is too fresh to need repeating, but these facts should not be forgotten...
...9th Division stormed Green Hill and Bald Hill, on either side of Jefna, after veteran British troops had tried for six months to capture them...
...These two actions, and the work of the incomparable 1st farther south, opened the way to Mateur; and with the fall of Mateur began the collapse which spread across the entire German line. If the 9th and 34th had not learned their lessons so well, the Battle of Tunisia might not yet be over...