Word: gafsa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is Charles Wertenbaker who, as Senior Editor of TIME, was for many months in charge of all TIME'S news-reporting on the war and foreign news. No armchair editor, he spent four months at the front in Tunisia, followed our armies to Gafsa, Maknassy, El Guettar and almost to Mateur. He will be top man on the actual invasion team...
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...
Apart from the soldier-slapping the fact remains that as commander of the II Corps in Tunisia (four divisions plus), General Patton distinguished himself in both attack and defense, took Gafsa and stopped the German Panzers at El Guettar, and that his record of success continued in Sicily...
...could hold us we might have to go back a long way. . . . For about one day in that battle, I was slightly anxious. But we got to Tripoli in eight days. The second occasion was when we left Tripoli. . . . About the same time Rommel was attacking the Americans at Gafsa, and we had to do something about it. ... We were very weak and very stretched and it was clear that Rommel was pulling out from in front of the Americans to attack us. ... I think the only thing that saved us was our great air superiority. Rommel attacked...
...just in time to 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...