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...differed in describing Takrouna. Some of the Highlanders, staring at it through the moon-sifting mist that night, said that it looked like Edinburgh Castle. Other men said it looked like terrain on the moon. One man, looking at it through binoculars, said: "It is as though a great rectangular block of stone had been set down quite recently at the edge of the plain, and then another, smaller block on top of that. The height was held by some of the best Axis troops, for Takrouna was the beginning of the last natural wall before Tunis...
...Scotsman. Born near Edinburgh in 1904, son of an engineer, David MacDonald started out in rubber planting in Malay. In 1929, when depression wrung that business dry, an earlier interest in stage and films took him to Hollywood. There a break plus his abilities got him jobs under Directors Cecil De Mille, King Vidor, Henry Hathaway and Raoul Walsh, with whom he went to London...
British artillery was in position before Médinine. Some of their gun emplacements were on two hillocks, dubbed Elephant Hill and Edinburgh Castle, which stuck up like two pimples in the plain. Others were on the ridges behind, where TIME'S Correspondent Jack Belden also stood and watched one phase of one day's battle. Belden wrote in his notebook...
...Germans land shells atop Edinburgh Castle. Dark, black streamers of smoke suddenly appear in the sky over...
...loud roaring noise of planes in a dive. Someone shouts: "Those aren't ours." Out of the sun across the battlefield sweep three planes toward Edinburgh Castle. A loud series of crumps rends the air, huge clouds of blackish-grey smoke spring up at the foot of Edinburgh. Machine gunners on Sherman tanks let loose at the planes. Startled birds scatter in all directions...