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...handful of U.S. paratroops and. French infantry. The Allies concentrated most of their strength north around Pichon in the Ousseltia Valley region, where they expected the Nazis to attack. Allied reconnaissance never spotted the Axis power gathering to the south near Faïd Pass. Three hours before Rommel's tanks rumbled out of Faïd Pass, General Dwight Eisenhower himself was calmly making a tour of the front only a few miles away. Fredendall was unable to switch his forces in time. The Nazis rolled through...
...Rommel's punishing lunge and successful withdrawal through Kasserine Gap is now history. A footnote to that history was a frank report from Allied headquarters last week, citing the failure of U.S. troops to cover their retreat with land mines. When Rommel withdrew he probably saved himself by his skillful use of mines. The U.S. command made other mistakes, not the least of which was splitting their armored units into small groups with which the experienced Germans dealt quickly and savagely...
After the towed gun came models mounted on self-propelled chassis. Some of these tank destroyers have been in action: in routing Rommel from Egypt and Libya, General Montgomery had 24 such U.S. weapons (105mm. howitzers) among his 3,000 guns...
...manpower? At Britain? Not without running into the most highly organized defensive net in the Allied world. At Spain? Not unless he was willing to support a very poor cousin and gain doubtful ends (TIME, March 8). Out of the North African trap, at Morocco or Egypt? Rommel had tried and failed. In Russia? Not without beginning all over again where the campaign began last year...
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa--American forces captured Sened, only 25 miles from the sea, today in a swiftly developing drive across Tunisia and military quarters believed that Marshal Erwin Rommel faced the imminent choice of a Stalingrad or Dunkirk defeat in Africa...