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...charges through vineyards and lemon orchards. They helped the British into Regalbuto and Centuripe. From that high ground they could roll up the whole German line on Mt. Etna's western slope. General Montgomery could now begin the envelopment of Catania, and thereby spare his men a costly frontal assault...
...Oran, where the 1st landed and met some of the hardest fighting of the early campaign in North Africa, Allen demonstrated the quality which had sometimes been confused with casual impetuosity. The French held a strong position at St. Cloud, a suburb of Oran. Rather than lose men in frontal assault, Allen, on a spur-of-the-moment decision, sent two units around the town, into Oran. As his men told it later, it sounded obvious and easy, but they knew it was the act of a resourceful and flexible commander...
...there was more to it than that, as this correspondent learned later-not from able General Ryder, who knew his men too well to make excuses for them. The tactical plan, as devised by the British IX Corps, called for a frontal assault by the 34th on its objective while the hill to the north of the pass, which dominated the 34th's objective, was still in enemy hands. U.S. infantry works better in enveloping tactics. If the hill to the north had been taken first, and then the southern hills attacked from either flank, the story of Fondouk...
...postwar problems the one most thickly sown with mines, strung with barbed wire and most heavily fortified is the future of continental Europe. Last week FORTUNE, in a special supplement, fourth of a series on The United States in a New World, made a frontal assault on this intellectual Festung. Compared with much postwar thinking in the press about Europe, the proposals of FORTUNE'S editors are direct and bold. Their goal: "to create a new Europe. We are no more 'realistic' than that." But readers who could remember back before Hitler, before the Depression, recognized that...
Tactical Force. When General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery saw his early frontal attacks on the Mareth Line at Wadi Zig-zau fail, and saw his small flanking movement headed for El Hamma begin to succeed, he said: "Let's reinforce success." He pulled out much of his armor and more infantry and poured them south on a series of forced and camouflaged marches by night. The force made an extraordinary 200-mile dash across desert as trackless as the sky, building its own dust storms. Armor and the truck convoys made the whole desert stink like a garage, according...