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...facts, said Mr. Stimson, were that U.S. troops had made an "important contribution" to a British victory. General Patton, said the Secretary, had been ordered not to try to cut between Rommel and Von Arnim...
General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander, commander of land forces in Tunisia, denned the order carefully. "The main task I gave to the Second U.S. Corps," he said, "was 1) to capture and secure Gafsa as an administrative base for the Eighth Army; 2) to threaten Rommel's rear from Gafsa and Maknassy so as to draw off reserves from the Eighth Army." Both these jobs had been "most successfully done...
...Axis forces had been driven into a great beachhead, about 100 miles long and 50 miles deep. Inside that beachhead, Albert Kesselring had 18 airfields, two cities with radiating roads, many good heights, some fixed fortifications, plenty of guns, and perhaps 175,000 men. He had Rommel, a proved master of battle, and Arnim, an aristocratic technician. And he had orders...
...Hello, Frisco, Hello" has first billing, but the biggest attraction at the Met happens to be a war picture what am a war picture--"Desert Victory." Another one of those superlative British films, "Desert Victory" records the rout of Rommel by Montgomery's hardy Eighth Army over the 1300 miles of sandy hell that separates El Alamein from Tripoli. Unlike the typical Hollywood war film, "Desert Victory" shows battle to be neither ridiculously pretty nor ostentatiously heroic--but rather a bewildering melange of noise, confusion and quiet tragedy...
...ground troops had nothing behind them but training camps and the remote and vicarious experiences of Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, New Guinea. The British troops had been tempered by Norway, France, Dunkirk, Greece, Crete, Burma, many blunders and defeats, a great deal of desert and two years against the master, Rommel. The first U.S. phase in Tunisia was a time of learning, a waking up. Said an officer attached to Lieut. General George S. Patton's II Corps: "All this will be great practice for the next show...