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...Animal. Rommel, having earned a breather on the central front, had to turn south toward the so-called Mareth Line, where pillbox fortifications, barbedwire entanglements, gun emplacements and land mines are sprinkled thickly through the Matmata Mountains. Only ten miles away was the Afrika Korps's old enemy, General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, gazing up at the 2,000-ft. heights of the range, patiently waiting the day when stores, ammunition, artillery, men were all accumulated to his taste and he was ready to make his massive assault. Already assembled were probably 100,000 fresh reserves and veterans...
...Axis' southern position was guarded by the pillbox fortifications of the Mareth Line, built by the French atop high, naturally defensible escarpments. But the south appeared to be a likelier route for an Allied plunge into the coastal flatlands. The weather was wet, but the footing was better over sandy soil. And in the Allies' southern sector were the battle-smart veterans of the seasoned Eighth Army. With a strong show of artillery and tanks, Rommel tried to delay them. They edged...
...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 an estimated 70,000 troops of Colonel General Jürgen von Arnim, who recently succeeded Nehring. The knot of Axis strength will be hard to unravel, especially with Montgomery...
...fanatically. In one pocket, where 638 Japs were killed, the living were observed wearing gas masks against the stench of their fellows. No man among the Allies expected the remaining Japs to surrender, even though the last man was backed into the water or left alone in a concrete pillbox...
Eugene Moore joined the Marines just a year ago; he was one of those landed on Gavutu Island in the Solomons. His tank proceeded up the beach that day in advance of the infantry, spied a Jap pillbox, stopped to fire. Out of a bomb shelter near by poured a horde of reckless, howling Japs. They swarmed over the tank, jammed a crowbar in the tank-track...