Word: medjerda
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...Major General Terry Allen it was a satisfying pride in his 1st Division and an occasional chance to talk polo with a British major over a cup of tea. To many another soldier it was a grave in a clearing at Bèja, in the Valley of the Medjerda...
Again the Eighth. The second factor in the victory was a sneak by important armored and infantry units of the Eighth Army. They hustled from their dormant sector on the southeastern end of the line up to the First Army's toughest sector, the Medjerda Valley approach to Tunis...
...path to Massicault in the Medjerda Valley was only four miles wide and 1,000 yards deep. Into that confine four planes a minute dropped their loads for hours...
Behind them were other hills, and there were hills to the right and the left. But before them, to the right of the Medjerda River's path (see map), the valley stretched straight and flat as far as the eye could see, toward Tunis...
...south of Medjez-el-Bab, a great horseshoe of batteries covered the valley where it de bouches on the plain before Tunis. All the batteries pointed toward three objectives: the fortified hill known as Long Stop and the two hills in front of it. Without Long Stop, dominating the Medjerda valley, all the other hills would be useless, and the way into the valley would be closed...