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...Gabés. On the wet and soggy earth of North Africa the preliminaries of a final and decisive campaign were being more laboriously worked...
...troops were green men who would need months of experience before they were as battlewise as the German veterans who opposed them. In the northeast corner of Tunisia the fighting was at a virtual stalemate. Across the waist, U.S. troops had advanced to a point 40 miles from Gabés, Tunisia's southernmost port. The advance was a threat to Axis strategy. If the Allies reached Gabés, thus cutting the Axis corridor, they might succeed in stopping the juncture of Nehring and Rommel...
There he could make a stand behind the Mareth Line, the "Little Maginot" of pillboxes and cement forts strung along the hills in southern Tunisia from the Gulf of Gabès 20 miles inland. There were already reports of Axis troops from Tripolitania hastening into Tunisia. There was even a report (from Berlin) that Rommel himself had left Tripolitania to go "elsewhere on another job." The report obviously was put out to save the fox's face, now that he had lost his tail. But it might be true. Rommel might have gone to Tunisia...
...Hill of Jefna. On Nov. 19 British paratroops, armored cars and artillery lunged to a point near Medjez-el-Bab, there supported French soldiers in repulsing four successive waves of German troops and dive-bombers. In the south French patrols swept toward the coast and the Gulf of Gab...
...Allied raids on Italian depots disrupted Axis transportation at its source. Constant Allied attacks were slowly demolishing African receiving points. One day last week heavy bombers ranged for eight hours over smoking La Goulette, port of Tunis. Light and heavy bombers pounded Bizerte and railroad lines near Sfax and Gabés. Growing Allied air power was getting an edge on the Luftwaffe. General James Doolittle's Twelfth Air Force announced that U.S. flyers since the beginning of the campaign had destroyed 70 enemy planes, damaged 43. U.S. losses...