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...found, for example, five long cables from TIME'S Foreign News Editor, Charles Wertenbaker, filed from Gafsa within sound of the German guns. I found a long dispatch from correspondent Will Lang, who is also at the Tunisian front, and another from Jack Belden, who was with General Montgomery's men when they broke through the Mareth Line...
...counterattacked the Eighth Army's positions in the Mareth Line and drove the British infantry back upon the Wadi Zigzau. In order to relieve the situation of this infantry, the British command that evening ordered troops across the wadi to counterattack the German counter-attackers. TIME Correspondent Jack Belden accompanied the troops and cabled this soldier's-eye view...
...After watching the Eighth Army knock out 52 German tanks in twelve hours TIME Correspondent Jack Belden wrote: "Tanks! How futile they appear face to face with these ambush-emplaced guns. Like papier máché boxes they are strewn across the Médinine plain...
...stream called the Pin Chaung, Belden was trapped with Imperial troops by a road block and then encirclement...
...drivers, 19 Kachin, Karen and Burmese nurses, and an assortment of some 30 servants and refugees. They went first by motor transport into a jungle. Their path crossed elephant trails until they came to a chasm bridged only by a rope suspension which could carry nothing heavier than jeeps. (Belden had one.) General Stilwell ordered everyone to strip unnecessary paraphernalia so as to be able to walk. In the weeds a pile of elegant rubbish grew-steel helmets, pink brassieres, whiskey bottles, tins of powder, notebooks, overcoats, rich Mandalay silks...