Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moved along its length, like the stress of a whiplash. The veteran Eighth moved first, against a focus of mean terrain at Takrouna (see col. 2), then settled down to a hill-by-hill struggle. Then the First Army moved forward gradually onto hills on the edge of the plain of Tunis and then onto the plain itself (see p. 26). Later still, units of the U.S. II Corps suddenly showed up at the northern flank, after a remarkable forced march, and began an inching progress like the Eighth...
...these attacks, the one in the center seemed last week to have the greatest likelihood of early success. The Germans in their mountain positions elsewhere were set for siege. They had dug in for months. But in the center, the First was edging on to the plain of Tunis. If the hills beside it could be cleared-and some of them were cleared last week-then the Allies could eventually sweep to Tunis, divide or further compress the defenders, and drive the remnants into...
Ahead, across 1,500 yards of moon-bright plain, lay the hill called Takrouna...
...mist that night, said that it looked like Edinburgh Castle. Other men said it looked like terrain on the moon. One man, looking at it through binoculars, said: "It is as though a great rectangular block of stone had been set down quite recently at the edge of the plain, and then another, smaller block on top of that. The height was held by some of the best Axis troops, for Takrouna was the beginning of the last natural wall before Tunis...
...going good. They took the high ground above Medjez-el-Bab. Up the nearby heights by mule pack they hauled artillery. With the artillery already in place west and south of Medjez-el-Bab, a great horseshoe of batteries covered the valley where it de bouches on the plain before Tunis. All the batteries pointed toward three objectives: the fortified hill known as Long Stop and the two hills in front of it. Without Long Stop, dominating the Medjerda valley, all the other hills would be useless, and the way into the valley would be closed...