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Early Sunday morning, hours before daybreak, General Dwight Eisenhower rode up in a jeep to 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...
...French were poorly equipped and had too little support. Even now the fresh, inexperienced U.S. troops under General Lloyd Fredendall were inadequate for any real defense. Fredendall knew that he was holding the bag. Eisenhower rode off to inspect the next point in the U.S. positions...
...Madame Chiang and W. H. Donald were driving from Nanking to Shanghai to inspect wounded soldiers. At about 4:30 the high-powered car was running around a steeply banked curve when some Japanese bombers appeared overhead. The panicky driver stepped on the gas. The car flew off the road. The passengers were hurled...
Primarily the Knox junket (aside from giving a restless man a break from Washington routine) was to inspect defenses against submarine attacks which have spread from Iceland to the mouth of the Rio de la Plata. Said Knox...
Helpers. In Washington, D.C., when a streetcar conductor got off briefly to inspect a switch, playful passengers kept him off, took turns playing conductor along the route for 45 minutes before the motorman found...