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General Henri Honoré Giraud, the Allies' High Commissioner of North Africa, predicted last week that the Tunisian campaign will end this month...
...Tunisian town, American soldiers who could speak Italian heckled a batch of Italian prisoners. Finally, one Italian could contain himself no longer. "All right, laugh," he said, "but we're going to America. You're only going to Italy...
...Axis and Allies alike, the outcome of the Tunisian campaign was certain: it could end now only in German defeat. The Germans themselves seemed to be sure of the outcome, for they literally burned their bridges as they fell back...
...moment for which the First Army had waited and trained and fought throughout the winter, the climax toward which the Tunisian campaign had been 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...
...Tunisia is to hold on as long as possible. He is an officer of the Luftwaffe, as is also Colonel General Alexander Lohr, who commands ground forces in the Balkans. As an air officer, his job will also be to try to effect an ending to the Tunisian campaign which is less bloody than Dun kirk, less shocking to Germans than the failure at Stalingrad...