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...they were not all in Tunisia; many of the U.S. troops in action were green, most of the French ill equipped. Against them were upward of 150,000 hardened, battlewise troops, including the remnants of Erwin Rommel's tough if battered army, and at least one crack Panzer division-the Tenth, which had fought in Poland, France, Russia. German equipment was excellent. On to the battlefields last week rumbled the new, mighty Mark VI tank, heavily armored and hard to stop. Hitler had poured an estimated one-third of his entire air force into the North African area...
...reach. He abandoned hundreds of tons of new and tip-top matériel. He lost thousands of not so tip-top Italians. Parts of his rear guard vanished in shreds. But his retreat was orderly and he managed to keep intact a great part of his Panzer division and Afrika Korps, for he could move back more swiftly than Montgomery could move forward across scorched countrysides, dragging behind him his ever-lengthening supply lines. That Montgomery was able to move as fast as he did was a wonder of modern...
...destroyed the Rommel myth. Crowed the Eighth Army's official magazine: "[Rommel] lost his old dash, was badly rattled, and could devise no plan. The legend of the invincible Afrika Korps and Panzer forces has been shattered." But Montgomery did not destroy Rommel, as in his supreme confidence he had announced three months ago he was about to do. Rommel probably saved some 63,000 of his soldiers. In Tunisia, Rommel can expect some surcease behind the deep, scattered pillbox defenses of the Mareth Line. There is little chance that the Allies can prevent his making a junction with...
Berlin disclosed that General Walther Nehring, the Axis commander in Tunisia, had been succeeded by a 52-year-old Panzer officer, Colonel General Jürgen von Arnim, who recently led one of Field Marshal Rommel's tank divisions...
...offensive warfare. Strong tank and motorized artllery columns plunged as much as 30 miles ahead of the infantry -a totally new departure for the Red Army, all the more remarkable because it was accomplished in winter snows. By painful study, the Red Army Command had adapted the Germans' Panzer technique, and had now applied it when & where the Germans least expected this form of attack...