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...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 Tébessa and the whole right flank of the British First Army in danger, Allied armor met Rommel's divisions this week in a climactic...