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...strongest areas lie on the flanks. From Sedjenane to Djebel el Ang on the northeast, and from Enfidaville to Djebel Sefsouf on the southwest (see map), the mountain chains are steep, and provide a natural defense in depth. But in the center there are two areas where the fortress walls are weak. These are the broad valleys of Tunisia's two main rivers: the Medjerda and the Miliana...
...Finish? When General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery wrote these words, the men of whom he was so justly proud were busily engaged in driving Rommel into his last North African refuge. Rommel's main forces were already streaming through Enfidaville (see map), out of the flat plain and into the fortress hills. The battle of central Tunisia was virtually finished and won. The Eighth Army had traveled nearly 150 miles in a week...
Another Wadi. The Wadi el Akarit was the strong natural position at which Rommel chose to challenge the Eighth Army's passage through the Gabes bottleneck (see map). The position was compact-only about twelve miles across. It consisted of the shallow gully of the Wadi itself and, behind it, two hills called Djebel Fatnassa and Djebel Roumana, 800 and 400 feet high respectively...
...remote things, which in their sum total are George Patton, may well have been in his mind as he paced headquarters and watched immediate success slipping northward on his map and away from...
...Winter's Net. For the first time, Moscow newspapers last week printed maps showing the "official" battle line in Russia. The net geographic results of Russia's winter campaign, if that line is correct, are shown above. The net strategic effect has been to leave the Germans on something very like the line from which they started a year ago, except that they now hold all Crimea and the Novorossiisk bridgehead. The map also pointed up the smallness of Russian gains in the north. The Rzhev salient was reduced and the Leningrad siege lifted, but nothing like...