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After its drive outflanking the Mareth Line, the Eighth Army reorganized with extraordinary speed. Rommel evidently expected them to rest longer than they did. They surprised...
Another Test. As Rommel's main force wriggled into the rough, well-prepared terrain of the Bizerte-Tunis area the Eighth Army could well afford to be jubilant. It had once again outmaneuvered a resilient, valiant enemy. But the men had yet to prove that Rommel was broken for good...
...Rommel was now retiring into country beautifully adapted for siege, long prepared for just that. He was retiring into country alien both to his own and to Montgomery's men, who were desert fighters, not mountaineers. And he was retiring with his back to the wall of Europe. His men would fight fiercely here. Instead of another Dunkirk the British might find another Sevastopol as the Germans drew back on Tunis and Bizerte...
...sharp comparison between British and U.S. troops. The British were assigned to clear the heights to the left of the pass leading to Fondouk, the U.S. troops the heights to the right. These were important preliminaries to getting through to the coastal plain where Kairouan and perhaps some of Rommel's retreating strength could be assaulted. When the British troops reached their first objective at 7:30 the first morning, the U.S. troops had not begun to move. All day the British worked their way efficiently along their ridges; all day the U.S. troops tentatively approached but never stormed...
...These boys had been storming these hills for three weeks, trying to get over to the coast and get in Rommel's rear, but the Germans had refused to budge until this morning when they fled before Montgomery's powerful advance. 'We tried to knock 'em off Old Baldy,' said Sergeant Vernon Mugerditchian of Waukegan, Ill., jerking his head at a rounded bare steep cliff. 'We tried first with one battalion and then another, but we just couldn't. They were lookin' down our throats...