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Advance British patrols crossed the Tunisian border last week. Behind them the main force of the victorious British Eighth Army swept boisterously through Tripoli, pounded on over arid, rocky desert land on the heels of Rommel's retreating troops. But General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery was ahead of his supplies, and he may have to pause until Tripoli is put in shape to serve him as a base...
...sleeping quarters were the rear end of one of the trucks fitted out with a desk, two chairs, couch, wash basin, toilet and shower. Along the route he added a porcelain bathtub. Over his bed he pinned a picture of his enemy, Rommel...
...Cloud by Day. Rommel, through the 13 weeks of the pursuit, kept carefully out of reach. He abandoned hundreds of tons of new and tip-top matériel. He lost thousands of not so tip-top Italians. Parts of his rear guard vanished in shreds. But his retreat was orderly and he managed to keep intact a great part of his Panzer division and Afrika Korps, for he could move back more swiftly than Montgomery could move forward across scorched countrysides, dragging behind him his ever-lengthening supply lines. That Montgomery was able to move as fast...
...destroyed the Rommel myth. Crowed the Eighth Army's official magazine: "[Rommel] lost his old dash, was badly rattled, and could devise no plan. The legend of the invincible Afrika Korps and Panzer forces has been shattered." But Montgomery did not destroy Rommel, as in his supreme confidence he had announced three months ago he was about to do. Rommel probably saved some 63,000 of his soldiers. In Tunisia, Rommel can expect some surcease behind the deep, scattered pillbox defenses of the Mareth Line. There is little chance that the Allies can prevent his making a junction with...
...week's end, as Allied planes pounded Sfax, Sousse, other Axis supply ports, Arnim exploded into a frenzy of activity, driving against French-held positions near Robaa and Kairouan below Tunis. His effort was to make room for Rommel to crawl in beside him and to divert Allied strength from the southern end of the Axis corridor. For a while his powerful tank attack looked as though it would develop into a full-scale offensive until Giraud's Frenchmen, supported by British and U.S. troops, stiffened and hung...