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...North Africa, the Tunisian theater was in a state of suspense. Rommel, beaten and hurt (see p. 25), growled at the British Eighth Army with his artillery, snapped at British and French patrols which had run around the southern end of the Mareth Line to get in on his flank...
...There is a buzzing above our heads. Someone shouts: "They're ours," and there are 20 Kittyhawks and Spitfires above us. Eight German planes are seen flying above our left flank...
...were building submarines-wrote recently in Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung: "A successful Allied invasion of Norway would be a catastrophe for Germany. Norway in the hands of the enemy would mean great economy in the protection of Anglo-Saxon convoys . . . and would constitute a dangerous threat to the Finnish northern flank"-to say nothing, eventually, of the German northern flank...
...most serious Russian setback came in the Donets Basin itself, where the Red Army has been trying for two weeks to smash south against the main German armies. The Germans halted the drive with heavy counterattacks against the Russian right flank northwest of Stalino. This week Berlin claimed that other forces crossed the Donets River near Izyum. If this report was true, it meant that the Germans may succeed in breaking up the Red Army's drives through the Donets and toward the Dnieper...
...great opportunist, like all good soldiers, Rommel was ready to exploit any gain. And he was a gambler. If he were lucky and could crack Thala, he would have access to the Kremamsa Plateau, could pour troops onto that flatland, could drive against the flank of the British First Army which sprawled across the top of Tunisia. Then the whole Allied strategy in North Africa would have to be recast. This was the crisis when the weary young men braced themselves and Allied reinforcements rushed up to give them...