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Executor of this break-through and temporary commander of the U.S. II Corps (as Lieut. General George Patton had been at Gafsa and El Guettar, where it had been expected that tanks would be supreme) was Major General Omar N. Bradley, a top-notch infantry soldier. Tall, wiry and grey, General Bradley is as tough as his hardest topkick. He was an outstanding athlete at West Point. When a new 550-yard obstacle course was opened under his supervision at Camp Claiborne in Louisiana, he personally tested its 14 hazards at top speed...
...some initial difficulties, and it was largely the handiwork of General Dwight D. Eisenhower. As commander of the whole Allied effort, he has kept himself rigidly out of the limelight, has exercised the greatest possible tact, and has contributed many ideas (the forced march of U.S. troops from El Guettar to the extreme north was an Eisenhower conception...
...battalion commander, who had personally led the B Company attack, was a rugged and capable lieutenant colonel. He had lost a front tooth from a piece of .88 shrapnel at El Guettar. Now he decided it was better to die fighting. With two of his platoons he marched up the hill through the fire on that ridge and crossed over the ridge. Those two platoons and the colonel were not heard from again...
...troops moved 200 miles from the El Guettar sector in a swift and skillful march. General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander, commander of Allied ground forces in Tunisia, issued a statement: "Senior British officers have the fullest admiration for the excellent staff work, particularly for the speed and secrecy with which the move was carried out. They equally praised the excellent march discipline of the U.S. Army troops on the roads...
...better yet was the way the Americans fought when they got there. They had no Dunkirk to avenge, but they did have a Faïd, an El Guettar, and a Fondouk. A correspondent who had written of their deficiencies on those earlier battlefields wrote now: "Experienced units of the II Corps look equal to the best British forces...