Word: takrouna
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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Action started at the southeast end of the line and moved along its length, like the stress of a whiplash. The veteran Eighth moved first, against a focus of mean terrain at Takrouna (see col. 2), then settled down to a hill-by-hill struggle. Then the First Army moved forward gradually onto hills on the edge of the plain of Tunis and then onto the plain itself (see p. 26). Later still, units of the U.S. II Corps suddenly showed up at the northern flank, after a remarkable forced march, and began an inching progress like the Eighth...
Ahead, across 1,500 yards of moon-bright plain, lay the hill called Takrouna...
...differed in describing Takrouna. Some of the Highlanders, staring at it through the moon-sifting mist that night, said that it looked like Edinburgh Castle. Other men said it looked like terrain on the moon. One man, looking at it through binoculars, said: "It is as though a great rectangular block of stone had been set down quite recently at the edge of the plain, and then another, smaller block on top of that. The height was held by some of the best Axis troops, for Takrouna was the beginning of the last natural wall before Tunis...
...Takrouna was taken. The Eighth Army moved on toward its goal, Tunis...
...growing for months and which the enemy had tried to stave off with counter-attacks - the most recent of which, only two nights before, had cost him 33 tanks when his armor plunged headlong into British gun positions. It was a moment carefully chosen: the Eighth Army had taken Takrouna and was diverting Axis strength to the southwest; since before dawn other British units of the First Army had been attacking just to the south; before the next dawn American units would launch their attack to the northeast...
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