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...then settled down to a hill-by-hill struggle. Then the First Army moved forward gradually onto hills on the edge of the plain of Tunis and then onto the plain itself (see p. 26). Later still, units of the U.S. II Corps suddenly showed up at the northern flank, after a remarkable forced march, and began an inching progress like the Eighth...
...they were right, if the beginning of Rommel's end had indeed come, it was thanks largely to General Montgomery and the Eighth Army. They had so far borne much the heaviest burden in Tunisia. The British, French and U.S. troops on Rommel's flank had not been able to do much yet. They and the sea had served well as the walls of a kind of cylinder. The Eighth Army had been the piston. And if Rommel was now getting compressed beyond repair, it was because the Eighth Army had done such a splendid job of crushing...
...clock flares and Very lights began going up as infantry advanced; enemy shells made bright bursts close at hand; tracers made changing patterns. . . . Infantry took the heights and swept around the flank of the enemy. The road was cleared...
...first morning, the U.S. troops had not begun to move. All day the British worked their way efficiently along their ridges; all day the U.S. troops tentatively approached but never stormed the first of their heights. Finally, though the U.S. failure to clear the right flank meant terrible losses, British tanks ran the gamut of the pass, won Fondouk, and later took Kairouan...
...Patton had not been ordered to try to cut Rommel off, he had certainly been given the task of harassing his flank as he withdrew northward. This Patton had not been able to do; he must have had his doubts as to who was winning the first round of the Rommel-v.-Patton match...