Word: caps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus, suddenly, breathtakingly, sooner than anyone had expected, the battle of Tunisia was decided. These surrenders were the beginning of a roundup in the Tunis-Bizerte area of 64,000 German prisoners, 330 tanks, 500 guns, 4,000 trucks. Other Axis troops fled toward Cap...
...Cap Bon would never be a Bataan, any more than Tunisia had ever been a "Stalingrad or could ever be a Dunkirk. Bataan served a strategic purpose: it denied Manila Bay to the Japs for many weeks. Cap Bon can serve no strategic purpose: the Allies can push on toward Europe without...
There was still fighting to be done in Tunisia early this week. Axis remnants straggled toward Cap Bon, the thumb of the Tunisian hand pointing bluntly at Sicily. Some Germans and Italians were already there, and certain prepared defenses had been built. Correspondents spoke of the peninsula as a potential Bataan...
Early this week infantry of the Afrika 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...
...Side made ten runs to the faculty's twenty, and the only argument now is whether the players or the cheering squad had more fun. It was worth the walk to Soldiers Field and back just to see Captain McIntosh posing for the camera as a leather-lunged umpire, cap on the back of his head with the be-spinached bill behind...