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...facts, said Mr. Stimson, were that U.S. troops had made an "important contribution" to a British victory. General Patton, said the Secretary, had been ordered not to try to cut between Rommel and Von Arnim...
...north, Anderson's First Army was inching forward toward the Bizerte-Tunis area in dreadful weather. Sedjenane was captured and the strategic hills from which Colonel General Jurgin von Arnim had launched his February offensive were almost in British hands...
...British had succeeded in compressing the front somewhat. The Germans claimed that this was just what they wanted. Berlin radio spoke of "the achieve ment of final union between Rommel's forces and those of Arnim," and added: "The original aim of a long prepared plan of operation has thus been achieved." Rommel was reported to have set up new headquarters at El Djem, far north of General Patton's main efforts...
North around Tunis and Bizerte was the Marshal's colleague, Colonel General Jiirgin von Arnim, at whose heavy face the U.S. got its first look last week (see cut). Arnim might find a soft spot in the positions of the entrenched British First Army, be able to bend back the upper jaws of the trap. Like Rommel, Arnim hoped to hamper Allied concentration, demolish Allied equipment - anything to delay the showdown. After hot hand-to-hand fighting he pushed the British out of the one village (Sedjenane), lost 3,000 men, 30 tanks. The British said that their losses...
Three and a half hours later the Germans called his bluff. The tough, desert-hardened 21st Panzer Division and Colonel General Jürgin von Arnim's veteran 10th moved forward against Fredendall's lightly held line. According to some reports, Rommel was lying wounded in a German hospital at Tunis; according to others, he had just been called to Russia. In any event, his hand and genius were clearly to be seen in what followed...