Word: tunisians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found, for example, five long cables from TIME'S Foreign News Editor, Charles Wertenbaker, filed from Gafsa within sound of the German guns. I found a long dispatch from correspondent Will Lang, who is also at the Tunisian front, and another from Jack Belden, who was with General Montgomery's men when they broke through the Mareth Line...
...There are a lot of other things it seems to me they've yet to find out too. A lot of the boys seem to think they're going home when the Tunisian campaign is finished. Why, I don't know, when some boys in the Eighth Army have been in Africa for years compared to their months. It seems to me that somebody back home must be feeding these boys an awful lot of stupid propaganda. It's a pity too, because guys like this who have been sluggin' away at a hill like...
...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 1943 the decisive, if not final, year...
Here in battle he was still a passionate teacher. On his only visit to the front last week he taught a lesson which may seem small, but which helped make one man a better soldier. One of the first orders General Patton issued when he took his Tunisian command was that all officers must wear helmets and leggings at all times. In the heat of battle, a messenger ran up to a lieutenant at an observation post just forward of a position General Patton had-taken. The lieutenant, looking very pleased and perhaps expecting a compliment, asked: "What...
Tunisia was far, too, from the training grounds: it would be nice if everything happened as punctually under the Tunisian Patton as it had under old Hurry-Up-and-Wait Patton at Fort Benning, or if Tunisia were as flat and dry just now as the western training reserve, the triangle from Desert Center, Calif., to Yuma, Ariz., to Searchlight...