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...hurried back into the new Allied line. Weary U.S. troops tried to hold Kasserine Pass, but the cocky and persistent Germans kept jabbing at them. Despite a storm of U.S. artillery fire, they seized the pass, swept on through toward Thala. With Tébessa and the whole right flank of the British First Army in danger, Allied armor met Rommel's divisions this week in a climactic...
...Germans, whether they jabbed any further or not, had already swept up some 4,000 sq. mi. of Tunisia, now had room to move around. More important to them, they had removed any threat to their flank when they turned south to face their old enemy, Montgomery. It would be some time before Montgomery's Eighth, slowly advancing around the ends of the Mareth Line, and Eisenhower's central Tunisian forces could join hands...
...victory meant much more than the destruction of a great army. It meant the complete failure of Hitler's 1942 strategy in Russia: to outflank Moscow from the south, render the Volga lifeline useless to the Russians and secure the German flank driving through the Caucasus toward Baku and the Middle East. It also meant that the Red Armies defending Stalingrad and the Volga were free to push west and join the armies smashing at Rostov and Kharkov...
Savior of Stalingrad and commander in chief of the armies threatening the German flank in the Caucasus from the northeast is Colonel General Andrei Ivanovich Yeremenko, 50. Stocky, brown-haired, he was born in the Ukraine, left a farm to join the Czarist army in 1913. After the peace he organized guerrilla bands to fight the Germans in the Ukraine, served during the Civil War as a cavalry officer under Semion Budenny. When the Germans invaded Russia, Yeremenko assumed command of an army west of Moscow, played a leading role in the defense of the capital, shifted to Stalingrad when...
Leclerc Over the Desert. Driving northward from interior Africa (the Chad) to threaten Rommel's inner flank was a Fighting French column under one of the heroes of the De Gaullist forces. He was a young Frenchman who was wounded in 1940, twice escaped from the Germans, finally made his way to Fighting French territory in Africa and fought under the nom de guerre of Brigadier General "Jacques Leclerc," apparently to protect relatives in France. Last week his motorized forces, already well over 1,000 miles from their base at Fort Lamy in Chad, seized two Italian posts south...