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...exact number and condition of the Axis force in Tunisia is known, probably, to only a few Germans. The Allies announced that 30,000 prisoners had been captured in all Tunisia since the breaching of the Mareth Line, and unofficial estimates placed Axis battle casualties in the same period at 10,000. The Italian Vittorio Veneto Division was said to have been virtually destroyed. These were losses for Kesselring, but not cataclysmic ones. His remaining force of approximately 175,000 was outnumbered by perhaps 2-to-1. But, considering its advantageous positions, it was by no means broken. It contained...
...Foreign News Editor, Charles Wertenbaker, filed from Gafsa within sound of the German guns. I found a long dispatch from correspondent Will Lang, who is also at the Tunisian front, and another from Jack Belden, who was with General Montgomery's men when they broke through the Mareth Line...
After its drive outflanking the Mareth Line, the Eighth Army reorganized with extraordinary speed. Rommel evidently expected them to rest longer than they did. They surprised...
Tactical Force. When General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery saw his early frontal attacks on the Mareth Line at Wadi Zig-zau fail, and saw his small flanking movement headed for El Hamma begin to succeed, he said: "Let's reinforce success." He pulled out much of his armor and more infantry and poured them south on a series of forced and camouflaged marches by night. The force made an extraordinary 200-mile dash across desert as trackless as the sky, building its own dust storms. Armor and the truck convoys made the whole desert stink like a garage, according...
...Army had forced its way deep into Tunisia and virtually shut Rommel in. On his map General Patton could see where the Eighth Army, having succeeded again, was resting again. The masterful forced march around Rommel's right flank (see p. 27) had shaken Rommel out of the Mareth Line - but had not destroyed...