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...burned-out Luger taken at El Guettar when the Americans stopped Germany's famed Tenth Panzer Division...
...manner, Lt. Hackett rode into the Tunisian campaign with the mechanized cavalry swirling across sandy stretches of battle-ground in a jeep. Operating as a combat intelligence officer in North Africa, he took part in most of the major battles including Gafas, Seined Maknassey, Jbol Berda, and finally El Guettar, where on a reconnaissance mission behind enemy lines, he was hurled 15 feet by an exploding German 88 men shell, which tore away parts of both his legs...
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...