Word: roumana
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...natural position at which Rommel chose to challenge the Eighth Army's passage through the Gabes bottleneck (see map). The position was compact-only about twelve miles across. It consisted of the shallow gully of the Wadi itself and, behind it, two hills called Djebel Fatnassa and Djebel Roumana, 800 and 400 feet high respectively...
...louder noise came. It was an artillery barrage-the heaviest since El Alamein. It concentrated on Djebel Roumana, and when it had walked back & forth across the hill for a couple of hours, British infantry rose up from the wild barley growing in the sand and stormed the height...
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