Word: terraine
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...Terrain. The Axis beachhead in Tunisia is not wholly a fortress. Much of it is country which favors defense, but there are vulnerable spots...
Another Test. As Rommel's main force wriggled into the rough, well-prepared terrain of the Bizerte-Tunis area the Eighth Army could well afford to be jubilant. It had once again outmaneuvered a resilient, valiant enemy. But the men had yet to prove that Rommel was broken for good...
...great naval victory was won last week on the dry, hill-ribbed terrain of southern Tunisia. General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander, deputy commander of Allied forces there, pointed out this fact in a press conference. The juncture of the Eighth Army with other Allied forces meant that General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's troops could now be supplied from French North African ports rather than the Middle East. A tremendous amount of merchant and naval shipping, more than all the U-boats sink in many weeks, would therefore be relieved from the six-week trip around Africa...
...Tunisia men of Germany, Italy, the U.S., the British and French Empires were fighting. They were there not for the sake of Tunisia; no one on that terrain was defending his doorstep-not directly. But Tunisia is a threshold of Europe. Every Italian and every German on the battle fields of Tunisia knew that each day he could prolong the defense of Tunisia was postponing by one more day the Allied invasion of Europe. And for the Allies, for men like Lieut. General Patton, there was urgency to destroy this stubborn Tunisian delaying force in time to make...
...Ground. The frustrating thing for George Patton was that he could not get at Rommel on the kind of flat terrain where he excels, as Rommel also does...