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...General was restless. George Smith Patton Jr., who had long ago boasted that nothing would please him so much as to get in a tank and joust, medievally and to the death, with a single tank commanded by Erwin Rommel, was now confined to a single room behind the lines by his lord and master, battle...
...Tunisia is a threshold of Europe. Every Italian and every German on the battle fields of Tunisia knew that each day he could prolong the defense of Tunisia was postponing by one more day the Allied invasion of Europe. And for the Allies, for men like Lieut. General Patton, there was urgency to destroy this stubborn Tunisian delaying force in time to make 1943 the decisive, if not final, year...
...moving on. A great step toward its completion had been made the week before, when Montgomery's Eighth Army had forced its way deep into Tunisia and virtually shut Rommel in. On his map General Patton could see where the Eighth Army, having succeeded again, was resting again. The masterful forced march around Rommel's right flank (see p. 27) had shaken Rommel out of the Mareth Line - but had not destroyed...
...spoke of "the achieve ment of final union between Rommel's forces and those of Arnim," and added: "The original aim of a long prepared plan of operation has thus been achieved." Rommel was reported to have set up new headquarters at El Djem, far north of General Patton's main efforts...
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...