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...Panzer division of the cab-and-car attack had rolled down a Mexican district side street, past the rows of mean, ramshackle frame houses. But they had only found a few victims to beat. One of them was a 17-year-old Russian boy, Pete Nogikoss, talking on a street corner to two Mexicans. The Mexicans fled. Pete stood still. The sailors beat him to the ground...
After the fall of Tunis, only the justly famous 90th Light Infantry Division and the 164th Panzer Grenadiers continued to fight in the manner we expected from an army. The 90th, which had been the backbone of the Afrika Korps, finally agreed to surrender-but only to their old enemy, the Eighth Army. The First Army, then pressing the 90th, turned this proposal down, and fighting continued as the 90th fought southward toward the Eighth. In the end, the 90th's commander, General Count von Sponeck, surrendered to Lieut. General Sir Bernard C. Freyberg, commander of the Eighth Army...
Lesson Learned. The Germans took the hint. They broke up Panzer divisions and teamed tanks with more infantry support. Last year, against Montgomery in Africa, Rommel cut his armored divisions in half, merged them into task forces with infantry...
...battalion or more from the 1st Armored Division pool. The amount of armor has varied with the job done. In mountain warfare one infantry division can hardly use more than one attached battalion, since the tanks must use the passes. For warfare on the plains, three to six Panzer battalions might be attached to an infantry division...
This lesson the Russians taught the world first. Before the Germans' massed Panzer assaults of two years ago the Russians set up defenses in depth, teamed infantry with anti-tank teams and smashed up tank assaults...