Word: tunisians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...group of youngsters from Flight "A" soundly trounced the old men of the detachment in a basketball game last nite 27 to 7. Onlookers were confused as to whether they were watching the Chicago bears and Green Bay Packers playing football or getting an eyeful of the Tunisian Campaign. Luckily to blood was drawn; however, 39 years old officer candidates kelly was seen two hours inter still attempting to each his breath which had evidently been scattered to the four winds. The major loss of the evening was Lt. Ericksen's pride...
...Holder. Patton replaced scrappy, 59-year-old Major General Lloyd R. Fredendall, an infantryman and tactician who may have been the unluckiest general in the North African campaign. FredendalE had to hold the whole central Tunisian front with an inadequate army of poorly equipped French and unseasoned U.S. troops. He said at the time, "I am holding...
...holds labored French-English telephone conversations with Eisenhower, whom he considers "a fine man." He hates desk work, bats around whenever possible in a U.S. twin-motored bomber. He runs himself on a Spartan 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. schedule, last week treated himself to a trip to the Tunisian front...
Last week the Tunisian air campaign was in Phase No. 1-the strategic bombing of Axis bases and land & water supply routes. Phase No. 2 will come when the ground forces are ready, or almost ready, to start their drive. Then "Mary" Coningham's short-range planes will try to liquidate the Luftwaffe. The whole execution is in the hands of Tooey Spaatz. For the Allies to win on the ground, he must first win the air. In Phase No. 3 will come the payoff...
Rommel hoped he might throw his old enemy off balance. In the fine, slanting rain of an early Tunisian morning he sent the tanks charging south toward the little town of Médinine, which the Eighth Army had occupied. From the foothills of the Matmata Mountains, nest of the Mareth Line fortifications, Rommel's cannon laid down a barrage to cover the advance...