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...central sector, U.S. and French patrols cautiously tested the Axis line from Gafsa to Faïd Pass. North, the British First Army, which had repulsed two weeks of savage German jabs, now showed signs of taking a limited offensive. Something was imminent. The possibilities were too explosive for any comparative quiet to last very long. Said Eisenhower...
...advance of U.S. troops, who overran Feriana and the Roman ruins of Sbeitla, jogged on past Sidibou Zid and regained virtually all the ground which they had lost during Rommel's savage attempt to crack the middle of the Allied ring three weeks ago. Rommel clung to Gafsa, which gave him a springboard for another attempt. But his hold was precarious. He was in danger of being outflanked by French troops moving up from the south...
...inspect the Allied positions at Sidi bou Zid, a few miles west of Faïd Pass. The U.S. soldiers had just moved in to relieve French troops. The whole situation was precarious. Eisenhower had been maintaining this mountainous front-from Pichon to Faïd Pass southwest to Gafsa-largely by bluff...
...experiencing dive-bombing for the first time. Thirty German tanks poured out of Faïd Pass. Artillery, infantry and 50 German tanks moved out of a point north of the pass (see map). South around Maknassy the Germans rolled toward the road that connects Sidi bou Zid with Gafsa. Another column pounded toward Gafsa itself. Mark IVs and some of the new, giant Mark VIs overran the positions of green. U.S. artillerymen, who sometimes scarcely had time to fire one round...
...forces had to abandon Gafsa, Fériana and Sbeïtla, swinging their whole line north and westward to escape annihilation. General George S. Patton's soa-in-law, Lieut. Colonel Johnny Waters, led one armored force to Djebel Lessoude, rescued isolated infantrymen from destruction. By midweek thousands of Allied vehicles were rolling west over sand hills and cactus patches-trucks, tanks, jeeps, two-wheeled carts, the jackass baggage trains of tired French Zouaves and Senegalese...