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...France and Russia he successively commanded the SS Death's Head Panzer Division, and an Elite Guard armored-infantry Division. Last week a Russian bullet returned Obergruppenfuhrer Theodor Eicke to the muck...
Three and a half hours later the Germans called his bluff. The tough, desert-hardened 21st Panzer Division and Colonel General Jürgin von Arnim's veteran 10th moved forward against Fredendall's lightly held line. According to some reports, Rommel was lying wounded in a German hospital at Tunis; according to others, he had just been called to Russia. In any event, his hand and genius were clearly to be seen in what followed...
...infantry force on Djebel* Ksaira was not so lucky. The German column from Maknassy hooked around them like a giant finger, plucked them off. As day ended and night closed down, U.S. tanks threw themselves against Panzer units that outnumbered them 2-to-1. Tank fought tank, firing at the livid gun flashes. On the second day U.S. armor counterattacked...
...veteran troops defending the last Axis-held corner of North Africa jabbed out furiously last week and cracked the Allied ring. Panzer divisions, probably some of Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps, surged against inexperienced artillery and U.S. armored troops holding the westward end of Fai'd Pass (see map). Despite ceaseless rains which have impeded Allied operations, more than 100 Axis tanks with dive-bomber support broke the U.S. line, split into two columns and advanced northwest toward Sidi bou Zid and south toward Gafsa...
When Germany's Panzer divisions were hurled across the Russian border, Collier's Correspondent Alice-Leone Moats was waiting for them, repartee in hand. Asked, at a dinner in Moscow's Italian Embassy, if she knew how Italian officers drank toasts, "Moatsie" snapped: " 'No. All I know about Italian officers is that they pinch girls' behinds.'. . . The others broke into a guffaw...