Word: mateur
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...Night, Twelve Miles. This phase began with a success for the Americans. They took Mateur...
While the Germans counterattacked along the rest of the line all last week, U.S. troops pounded their enemy in the cruel hills, marking their forward motion in yards. Then, suddenly and overnight, the enemy collapsed and the Americans lunged forward twelve miles to Mateur. The Corps Franc d'Afrique, to the north of the Americans, pressed forward on the coast to within 15 miles of Bizerte...
...Corps had, on the flanks of the road leading to Mateur, some of the toughest terrain in Tunisia. The rubble slopes of the hills were covered now with thick green grass. The enemy here was well emplaced. And yet in a single day U.S. troops pushed forward five miles and stayed forward. After the fourth day of attack, the Axis troops, apparently broken by constant shelling, pulled back their lines. U.S. troops moved within ten miles of Mateur...
...they set forth at once for Tunisia. Because they could not know what kind of reception they would get, they were long on offensive weapons, short on transport. Nevertheless they threw "a couple of brigades and a blade of armor" toward Tunis. They traveled in two columns. One reached Mateur, the other Tebourba, 20 and 18 miles from Bizerte and Tunis respectively. By then the advance forces had outrun transport and air support so far that they had no punch left. The bold gamble failed. German counter-attacks drove the forces back, and the First Army settled down...
Rommel was improving a position in which he already held all the advantage. He and Colonel General Jürgin von Arnim, commander of the Axis forces in the north, occupied a rim of commanding heights from Mateur south to the Mareth Line. Behind them was the flat coastal plain over which they could move rapidly against any vulnerable Allied point. General Dwight Eisenhower was forced to operate across a muddy terrain at the tough end of supply lines some 400 miles long...