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General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery had been thrown back at the northern end of the Mareth Line. In a 15-mile-wide gap between the Matmata Mountains and the seashore, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel had stopped him cold and he had backed up, leaving the plain strewn with British dead around the hell of the Wadi Zigzau (see p. 17). It appeared that Montgomery had been stalled. It only appeared...
...south of the Mareth Line, British and Fighting French units had made a wide sweep and were clawing their way towards El Hamma. Rommel sent German armor to bend back this threatening arm. Allied armor and an "unprecedented" onslaught of aerial power met the German column. So terrific was the air attack that even veteran Germans wilted. Only 20 miles from Gabès, the column drove on, threatening to close Rommel's corridor of retreat (see map). At that juncture, Montgomery shifted and struck again at the Mareth Line...
...against the very face of the Matmatas. The khamsin, the hot African wind, filled the air with the sands of the Sahara. Through the thick of it roared his planes. The mountains thundered and echoed with his artillery barrage. His infantrymen, like the point of a crowbar, jabbed into Rommel's suddenly faltering defenses. Montgomery's armor poured through, levering the crack until it was a wide and shattered hole. The Mareth Line, southern bulwark of the whole Axis position in Tunisia, collapsed. This week Rommel retreated...
...treacherous sink of Chott el-Fedjedj hemmed Rommel's inland flank. Just north of the chott were the U.S. troops of Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr., threatening to drive down out of the hills, cut across to the seacoast and block the German retreat. At Bou Hamran they were only 55 miles from the coast; in their position east of Maknassy, only...
Surely the second front will not suffer if the remnants of the class gather in Sanders Theatre for a traditional Class Day afternoon program of speeches and singing. Surely Marshal Rommel will not be forced to swim for Italy any later if we "put on the cap and gown...