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Flood Tide. Through the breach thundered the British tanks, engaging the flank of the German armor which had let itself be drawn too far north. For six hours the armed columns fought and maneuvered. Now it was no longer a question of hurling the Axis line back, but of fanning out behind it and engulfing...
This week General MacArthur sprang his surprise. U.S. troops, he announced, were fighting in the vicinity of Buna. Evidently the dirty, sweating U.S. Army engineers had hacked a crude road through the world's wettest, highest jungle, enabling combat troops to cross the mountains on the Australians' flank and knock at the Japs' back door. More troops came in planes which landed on a natural strip discovered in the jungle. Said General MacArthur: "The Allied forces now control all of Papua except the beachhead in the Buna-Gona area...
...stake of the impending battle was the excellent Bizarre navel base, dominating the vital Sicilian straits, and Adolph Hitler was believ ed gambling every man and machine he could spare in an effort to hold one strong point on his crumbling Mediterranean flank...
...Africa Corps was counter attacking desperately all along the 40-mile desert front, fearing that the break-through by Australians at the north end of the line might result in a disastrous turning of the entire German left flank. Berlin reports said Field Marshal Erwin Rommel had gone into the battlefield personally to direct strategy...
...midnight communique revealed that fighting had shifted to a new theatre of operations in the area of Nalchik, 60 miles northwest of the oil city of Ord-zhonikidso in the Caucasus foothills, where the Germans were believed trying a flank drive after failing to advance past Mozdok toward Grozny, farther cast...