Word: shallower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another Wadi. The Wadi el Akarit was the strong 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...
Djebel el Kreroua. The hill was Patton's most advanced position at one point on the Gafsa-Gabès road. U.S. troops who had fought without sleep for 48 hours seized it, then barely had time to scratch out shallow foxholes before 88-mm. cannon began blasting at them from German tanks in the pass below and from artillery in overlooking hills. The U.S. troops were armed only with rifles and machine guns, with which they rattled away at enemy infantry trying to follow the Axis tanks through the valley. Cut off by the German cannonading, the Americans...
...unit, but as two distinct organizations: an American army and a Negro army. This sordid scene has been painted by the War Department, thinking it a graphic solution to racial problems in the Army. But the need for a mixed regiment is merely one aspect of this shallow picture the War Department has produced. There are others...
...longboats came into shallow water the fire increased. Bullets ricocheted off the water with angry whines. "Toss out grenades," shouted an instructor. Grenades lobbed out, boomed dully, throwing up geysers that broke over the boats...
...soldiers clung like goats to the rocky hillside, dug into shallow holes, anxiously watched the German positions on the opposite ridge. In the peaceful valley between, where an ancient Roman column stood against the green olive groves of Arab farms, a shell from a U.S. 105-mm. howitzer exploded, sending a white puff rolling up through Faïd Pass...