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...Noel in his name is for his birthday -Christmas, 1891. He was born in India, educated at Charterhouse and Sandhurst, fought and was wounded in World War I, fought in World War II from the Saar to Dunkirk. He has a Scot's reticence which even his wife cannot penetrate...
...letter days that history has in store are unfixed and all may come in the next 90 days. When will the President meet Stalin? What will be the date of Rommel's Dunkirk? When will the Allied invasion of Europe begin...
...make the enemy face up to and endure a first-class Dunkirk on the beaches of Tunis. The triumphant cry now is: Forward to Tunis! Drive the enemy into...
...siege, long prepared for just that. He was retiring into country alien both to his own and to Montgomery's men, who were desert fighters, not mountaineers. And he was retiring with his back to the wall of Europe. His men would fight fiercely here. Instead of another Dunkirk the British might find another Sevastopol as the Germans drew back on Tunis and Bizerte...
...Matter of Experience. U.S. ground troops had nothing behind them but training camps and the remote and vicarious experiences of Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, New Guinea. The British troops had been tempered by Norway, France, Dunkirk, Greece, Crete, Burma, many blunders and defeats, a great deal of desert and two years against the master, Rommel. The first U.S. phase in Tunisia was a time of learning, a waking up. Said an officer attached to Lieut. General George S. Patton's II Corps: "All this will be great practice for the next show...