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Major General Norman T. Kirk, U.S. Army Surgeon General, went to Battle Creek, Mich, to pin the U.S.'s second highest honor on Chaplain Hoffmann, who is convalescing in Percy Jones General Hospital. He came unscathed through the Tunisian and Sicilian campaigns, lost his left leg and suffered severe wounds in the fighting near Cassino...
Ernie Pyle, Scripps-Howrard Newspaper Alliance war correspondent, famed for his reporting of the human side of the Tunisian and Italian campaigns...
...This stuff about tremendous losses is tommyrot.... When the time comes you will be surprised by the naval gunfire and air power we have. Some of you won't come back, but it will be very few. In the Tunisian campaign we lost only an average of three or four men to 1,000, and certainly seeing a show like this ought to be worth that chance...
Another documentary showing, last fortnight, was Tunisian Victory, the U.S. and British Governments' long-awaited sequel to Desert Victory (TIME, April 12, 1943). Tunisian Victory is worth seeing if only for a few minutes aboard the two lordliest convoys in history (they carried the British and Americans to Africa). There are some eye-shattering shots of combat, too. The film was made with care and skill, but the intricate military story is told too doggedly, with too much commentary. A general high-surface of tact and politeness reduces the film's forces as a record of truth. Most...
Sontoquine. If a man gets typhus, a useful drug is a new synthetic with a naphthalene nucleus, called sontoquine. Dr. Durand and Jean Schneider, a Tunisian colleague, said that "it relieves headaches rather quickly, brings back sleep and seems to operate favorably on nervous phenomena and on urinary retention." Sontoquine is also useful in malaria...