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Hoffmann was a ist lieutenant in our outfit. During the flaming fight for Fondouk Pass, the Division chaplain came down, offered Hoffmann the post of assistant Division chaplain. This would bring him a step-up in rank, and there wasn't so much ducking German 88s. Father Hoffmann's rejoinder was that he was interested not a whit in rank, that his place was with the boys of the ist Battalion. He stayed with us. Wherever the going was toughest on the front line, you'd see Hoffmann strolling along with a shovel. With this...
This is William White, who covered the Blitz and the Battle of Britain, the landing at Oran and the North African campaign, was with our troops when they went into actionat Medjez-el-Bab, Gafsa, El Guettar, Fondouk...
...cover the Blitz and the Battle of Britain, later transferred to the New York Herald Tribune, reached Oran three days after the A.E.F. landed in North Africa. He covered the Casablanca conference, was with our troops when they went into action at Medjez-el-Bab, Gafsa, El Guettar and Fondouk, then marched into Tunis with the British First Army...
...InNorth Africa Hersey takes the place of Senior Foreign News Editor Charles Wertenbaker, who spent three months at the front in Tunisia, followed the Americans to Gafsa, to Maknassy, to El Guettar, to Fondouk and almost to Mateur. He missed the dramatic entry into Tunis only because he had flown home to give you his eye-witness appraisal of just how each American division acquitted itself-as part of our final report on the North African victory...
...Mateur, Bizerte. One criticism made of U.S. troops is that they do not begin to fight their best until they get mad. If that is true, what happened to the 9th Division at El Guettar and to the 34th at Fondouk (or perhaps what was said about them) made them first-class divisions. The history of the last three weeks of the Tunisian campaign, of Hill 609 and Mateur and Bizerte, is too fresh to need repeating, but these facts should not be forgotten...