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Under the open sky in the bright glare of the moon the thin column of soldiers advancing with the slow step of a funeral procession appeared pitifully small. As they went with dead, plodding steps by me and up and out of sight over the slope, I thought that in the final analysis it is not planes, nor tanks, nor guns that bring victory in battle, but the infantry that go forward and drive the enemy from their positions and open a way for the rest of the army to follow over their bodies...
Valley of Death. In a dried-up river gulch yellow-haired Sergeant Ivor Andrews watched 17 German tanks file up a slope, let the first four go by towards another gun crew, knocked out the next three. When Belden visited the battlefield after it was all over, he counted 52 German tanks left on the arid, rock-strewn plain between the Matmata Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea. Some were blackened from fire, some were still splotched with green camouflage and black crosses. Turrets were torn off, fronts were blown in. They were casualties of Rommel's most earnest attempt...
...five days the battle of pursuit and retreat raged across the waist of Tunisia, until the Allies had been driven to the eastern slope of the "Grand Dorsal" range of mountains east of Tébessa. British artillery moved up to blunt the onslaught at Sbiba. French troops withdrew from their too-forward positions at Pichon, hurried back into the new Allied line. Weary U.S. troops tried to hold Kasserine Pass, but the cocky and persistent Germans kept jabbing at them. Despite a storm of U.S. artillery fire, they seized the pass, swept on through toward Thala. With...
...still going. The next man we came to was a sturdy young man, about 20, carrying two great loads at the ends of a pole. Each was more than I would choose to carry on a good road. He was nearing the top of a steep slope when we met him. I carried his load for the last lap of the climb and was glad when the ordeal was over. His luggage consisted of implements of war and the culinary art and my companion remarked that he seemed to "have everything except the kitchen stove.' He thanked me courteously...
...leads out of Moresby they slogged through mud a foot deep, through rain that never ceased. The Japs, weakened by dysentery and undernourishment, withdrew as fast as they had advanced. The Australians pushed on toward the gap at the top of the Owen Stanley Range. They started down the slope toward Buna, where the Japs landed last July. Last week they took Kokoda, a thatched native village 60 miles north of Moresby and 60 miles south of Buna, which has a small airfield. At Oivi, a few miles farther on, the Japs made a stand...