Word: kairouan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sudden a plane bursts into flames and comes down. I saw six shot down in one raid outside Bizerte. . . ." Some things have been especially diffi cult for her. One ("The worst moment I've ever had in my life") happened at a hospital in Kairouan. Bob Hope asked her to sing for a young pilot in bed with a sheet tucked up to his chin. He suggested Night and Day or That Old Black Magic...
Fondouk was a lesson to the 34th Division. The task at Fondouk, 90 miles north of El Guettar, was much the same as it had been in the south: to clear the mountains guarding a pass, force the pass and spread out on the plain to Kairouan. Those who watched a brigade of Guards take the dominant hill north of Fondouk in half an hour, who later saw the British armor plunge through a 450-yard-deep minefield covered by twelve anti-tank guns and speed for Kairouan, felt that there was something essentially wrong with the 34th, which...
...Fondouk action afforded a sharp comparison between British and U.S. troops. The British were assigned to clear the heights to the left of the pass leading to Fondouk, the U.S. troops the heights to the right. These were important preliminaries to getting through to the coastal plain where Kairouan and perhaps some of Rommel's retreating strength could be assaulted. When the British troops reached their first objective at 7:30 the first morning, the U.S. troops had not begun to move. All day the British worked their way efficiently along their ridges; all day the U.S. troops tentatively...
...sortie is a single attack by a single plane). The next day more than 1,000 were made. The offensive was the greatest the whole North African theater had seen. Allied supremacy advanced with the ground troops, as they captured important Axis fields at Sousse, El Djem and Kairouan...
...week's end, as Allied planes pounded Sfax, Sousse, other Axis supply ports, Arnim exploded into a frenzy of activity, driving against French-held positions near Robaa and Kairouan below Tunis. His effort was to make room for Rommel to crawl in beside him and to divert Allied strength from the southern end of the Axis corridor. For a while his powerful tank attack looked as though it would develop into a full-scale offensive until Giraud's Frenchmen, supported by British and U.S. troops, stiffened and hung...