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...that zero hour almost the entire number of light and medium aircraft assembled by the Allies in North Africa concentrated on the tight area near El Hamma where Rommel had his 88-mm. guns, his armor, and his Italians. Before each stick of bombs hit the earth, new sticks, and after them still other sticks, left the bomb bays. The bombardment lasted two and a half hours. Artillery chimed in toward the end, and when the bayonets finally slit forward, there was nothing left that could be called resistance...
...Field Artillery unit, headed by Colonel William S. Wood and under the same command as the QM ROTC. About 250 men are organized into two battalions which drill once a week each on Soldiers Field. Obstacle course, infantry drill, communications, and above all training with four new 105 mm. howitzers sharpen the abilities of these future artillerymen, for live ammunition...
...rifle range they burrowed into the cold Hoosier earth, tried out the Army's Garand. They passed the ammunition for 105-mm. howitzers. They dug slit trenches, staggered across swaying bridges of wire and planks (the less nimble tumbled six feet down into muddy water), paddled assault boats over mined, smoke-screened Driftwood River, grappled hand-to-neck while instructors barked: "Be ruthless-kill, maim, gouge his eyes, stick your fingers up his nostrils, give him a knee in the kidneys...
Djebel el Kreroua. The hill was Patton's most advanced position at one point on the Gafsa-Gabès road. U.S. troops who had fought without sleep for 48 hours seized it, then barely had time to scratch out shallow foxholes before 88-mm. cannon began blasting at them from German tanks in the pass below and from artillery in overlooking hills. The U.S. troops were armed only with rifles and machine guns, with which they rattled away at enemy infantry trying to follow the Axis tanks through the valley. Cut off by the German cannonading, the Americans...
...weight of Rommel's suddenly concentrated assault was too heavy. The old hands of Rommel's desert army were too smart for freshmen U.S. troops. As the British had done at Knightsbridge, U.S. tanks charged blindly into German ambushes. German 88-mm. cannon blasted them to bits. Swift-moving German columns surrounded and cut them...