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...point the road was clogged with one solid chain of British armor," Lang reports. "The tanks were halted because some bitter fighting was still going on near the intersection ahead, and we could ear the chilling chatter of machine guns, cautioning us that Tunis was not yet won. We bypassed the tanks and bumped onward over the roadside trolley line, passing villas licking flames into...
Meanwhile the 1st Armored Division had taken Maknassy, north of Gafsa, but was unable to push through the hills beyond. Reason: insufficient infantry. So about half the division was shifted to El 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...
...several days, armored units made a great show of preparing a break-through to the south of that sector, until the enemy placed his best armor, the remnants of his loth and 21st Panzers, oppo site the diversion...
...Korps which had stood opposite the Eighth Army held a bulge inland from the base of the Cap. The French XIX Corps and units of the Eighth which had not moved north for the main attack (see col. 2) moved slowly forward, reducing the bulge. From the north, British armor cut down across the mouth of the Cap. slicing into the flank of the bulge. Cap Bon was just a place for a useless last stand...
...Armor General. The Army moved swiftly to close ranks, named as its new European commander Lieut. General Jacob L. ("Jakie") Devers, chief of the Armored Forces. War Secretary Henry L. Stimson gave him a handsome sendoff: "General Devers has been especially prepared for this assignment. He made a recent trip through the whole African and European theater. He is thoroughly conversant with present and future plans...