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General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander, commander of land forces in Tunisia, denned the order carefully. "The main task I gave to the Second U.S. Corps," he said, "was 1) to capture and secure Gafsa as an administrative base for the Eighth Army; 2) to threaten Rommel's rear from Gafsa and Maknassy so as to draw off reserves from the Eighth Army." Both these jobs had been "most successfully done...
...found, for example, five long cables from TIME'S Foreign News Editor, Charles Wertenbaker, filed from Gafsa within sound of the German guns. I found a long dispatch from correspondent Will Lang, who is also at the Tunisian front, and another from Jack Belden, who was with General Montgomery's men when they broke through the Mareth Line...
...Army sergeants, one a thin Dev onshire boy named William Brown and one a slight young man named Joseph Randall of State Center, Iowa, stopped on the Gafsa-Gabes highway at midafternoon to day, shook hands and slapped each other on the back. ... By the time the red sun sank splendidly behind western ranges British liaison officers were gradually filtering into Gafsa demanding: 'Have you Yanks got any beer?'"-from New York Times Correspondent C. L. Sulzberger's account of the first meeting of U.S. and British Eighth Army patrols, which took place between Gafsa and Gabes...
Djebel el Kreroua. The hill was Patton's most advanced position at one point on the Gafsa-Gabès road. U.S. troops who had fought without sleep for 48 hours seized it, then barely had time to scratch out shallow foxholes before 88-mm. cannon began blasting at them from German tanks in the pass below and from artillery in overlooking hills. The U.S. troops were armed only with rifles and machine guns, with which they rattled away at enemy infantry trying to follow the Axis tanks through the valley. Cut off by the German cannonading, the Americans...
...field Giraud conferred with Eisenhower, Lieut. General George Patton and General Sir Harold Alexander, helped direct the capture of Gafsa (see p. 14). A German plane flew low over his own jeep but did not strafe it. Giraud shrugged his shoulders, thinking of his baraka (a supernatural ability to escape death). Wherever he went he asked: "Le Boche-where...