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...understand the nature of their accomplishments, and the reasons for their failures. Between March 18 and the end of the campaign last week, our U.S. divisions were almost continuously on the offensive, from Gafsa in the south to the tip of Tunisia at Bizerte. They were the 1st, the 9th and the 34th Infantry and the 1st Armored Division. Now that most restrictions of censorship have been lifted, it is possible to tell something of how each fought...
...Guettar for the new offensive. A dozen miles east of El Guettar the hills come close together in a narrow pass, and after that there is flat going to the sea. The plan was for the 1st Division to seize the hills to the north, for the 9th to take Djebel Berda and the other hills to the south, then for the ist Armored to push through the pass and see what it could do. This would keep the enemy engaged while Montgomery was attacking toward Gabes, and with luck the armor might get through to Rommel's rear...
Cliff O. Johnson of the Flustering Fourth Platoon is now the proud poppa of a baby girl born on May 9th. So now we can smoke again . . . George Kalionzes's wife wrote to him at last so he promises to not grow a beard to match that moustache and he will not become a hermit . . . The Navy is going to fix up Bernard Bob with a special set of flags to work right form his seat in Code so he won't have to go up to the rostrum between classes . . . The Navy Wives again urge the Lads to trip...
...mark these dates down in your little black book. Last day of classes this semester, Saturday, May 8 (three weeks from tomorrow). From Sunday, the 9th through Tuesday, the 11th will come a pre-exam "reading period" (no classes), during which beer will flow freely at the club (not gratis, but like water). Final exams come Wednesday, the 12th through Saturday, the 15th. Then, an inter-term recess of three days (16th, 17th, and 18th) when, we hope, the travel ban will be lifted so that we may see what's happened to the Big City since last time...
Ahead of him, behind him, was his army. They were Englishmen, Irishmen and Scots who had fought and been beaten in France; the Australian 9th Division (Morshead's Marines), which had held Tobruk in an eight-month siege; the South African 1st Division, whose countrymen had surrendered Tobruk after one devastating day; New Zealanders who had fought and fled from Greece and Crete. It was a purposeful army behind an impassioned, man who was avenging Dunkirk (where he had led the 3rd Division) and all of Britain's North African defeats...