Word: bab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is William White, who covered the Blitz and the Battle of Britain, the landing at Oran and the North African campaign, was with our troops when they went into actionat Medjez-el-Bab, Gafsa, El Guettar, Fondouk...
...just in time to cover the Blitz and the Battle of Britain, later transferred to the New York Herald Tribune, reached Oran three days after the A.E.F. landed in North Africa. He covered the Casablanca conference, was with our troops when they went into action at Medjez-el-Bab, Gafsa, El Guettar and Fondouk, then marched into Tunis with the British First Army...
...Hill Beside the Valley. When early this month the British First Army pushed northward into hills on the valley rim, they found the going good. They took the high ground above Medjez-el-Bab. Up the nearby heights by mule pack they hauled artillery. With the artillery already in place west and south of Medjez-el-Bab, a great horseshoe of batteries covered the valley where it de bouches on the plain before Tunis. All the batteries pointed toward three objectives: the fortified hill known as Long Stop and the two hills in front of it. Without Long Stop, dominating...
...most logical threats to the fortress, therefore, lay from the directions of Med-jez-el-Bab and Pont du Fahs - and last week Field Marshal Kesselring could see that his adversaries were aware of the logic. They seemed to be clearing the way, patiently and fiercely, for drives up Tunisia's center alleys. They spent the week clearing the outer walls of the alleys. French troops took Djebel Sefsouf on the one hand. British troops took Djebel el Ang on the other-a hill from which, on clear days, Tunis is visible 35 miles away. Kesselring, seeing the danger...
...First Army shifted its stance last week, getting ready to strike a blow toward Tunis and Bizerte at the proper moment. For some time Axis artillery had dominated the road from the sleepy, red-roofed little town of Béja to the important road junction of Medjez-el-Bab. Before the First Army could strike either east or north, that road had to be cleared...