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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This double use of air power was not suddenly invented in the last fortnight. It was in evidence at El Alamein. It had been developing for a long time, ever since the inferior Allies had withdrawn on many fronts under Stuka harassment. It was an elaboration of German methods (which have long stressed the tactical air force) and an amalgam of U.S. and British methods...
Tactical Force. When General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery saw his early frontal attacks on the Mareth Line at Wadi Zig-zau fail, and saw his small flanking movement headed for El Hamma begin to succeed, he said: "Let's reinforce success." He pulled out much of his armor and more infantry and poured them south on a series of forced and camouflaged marches by night. The force made an extraordinary 200-mile dash across desert as trackless as the sky, building its own dust storms. Armor and the truck convoys made the whole desert stink like a garage, according...
...treacherous sink of Chott el-Fedjedj hemmed Rommel's inland flank. Just north of the chott were the U.S. troops of Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr., threatening to drive down out of the hills, cut across to the seacoast and block the German retreat. At Bou Hamran they were only 55 miles from the coast; in their position east of Maknassy, only...
...Mareth Line, he had tried to kick the U.S. forces away from his rear. There in the mountains with the strange names (Djebel Berda, Djebel Chemsi, Djebel en Nedjilet) American troops had fought savagely and well to keep unrelenting pressure on the enemy. The fighting on Djebel el Kreroua was typical...
...Djebel el Kreroua. The hill was Patton's most advanced position at one point on the Gafsa-Gabès road. U.S. troops who had fought without sleep for 48 hours seized it, then barely had time to scratch out shallow foxholes before 88-mm. cannon began blasting at them from German tanks in the pass below and from artillery in overlooking hills. The U.S. troops were armed only with rifles and machine guns, with which they rattled away at enemy infantry trying to follow the Axis tanks through the valley. Cut off by the German cannonading, the Americans...