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Rommel was improving a position in which he already held all the advantage. He and Colonel General Jürgin von Arnim, commander of the Axis forces in the north, occupied a rim of commanding heights from Mateur south to the Mareth Line. Behind them was the flat coastal plain over which they could move rapidly against any vulnerable Allied point. General Dwight Eisenhower was forced to operate across a muddy terrain at the tough end of supply lines some 400 miles long...
...through to the coast and intercept him. Along the edge of the Axis corridor, the fighting showed signs of developing into a major conflict. But at week's end determined German resistance still kept the corridor open for Rommel's escape. His junction with General Jurgin von Arnim, uniting some 130.000 Axis troops in a strong position, seemed certain...
...some 63,000 of his soldiers. In Tunisia, Rommel can expect some surcease behind the deep, scattered pillbox defenses of the Mareth Line. There is little chance that the Allies can prevent his making a junction with an estimated 70,000 troops of Colonel General Jürgen von Arnim, who recently succeeded Nehring. The knot of Axis strength will be hard to unravel, especially with Montgomery's old enemy in the middle of it. Rommel remains a wily tactician. It may be a knot that will tie the Allies up so long that operations against southern Europe will...
...week's end, as Allied planes pounded Sfax, Sousse, other Axis supply ports, Arnim exploded into a frenzy of activity, driving against French-held positions near Robaa and Kairouan below Tunis. His effort was to make room for Rommel to crawl in beside him and to divert Allied strength from the southern end of the Axis corridor. For a while his powerful tank attack looked as though it would develop into a full-scale offensive until Giraud's Frenchmen, supported by British and U.S. troops, stiffened and hung...
Berlin disclosed that General Walther Nehring, the Axis commander in Tunisia, had been succeeded by a 52-year-old Panzer officer, Colonel General Jürgen von Arnim, who recently led one of Field Marshal Rommel's tank divisions...