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They had to claw their way along a mountainous, broken front of 20 miles. In the north the French, under Tunisian veteran General Alphonse Pierre Juin, drove the Germans from Mount Ferro (3,500 ft.), Mount Pagano (3,600 ft.) and Mount Pile (3,700 ft.). They slid into the village of Acquafondata, gained a hold on one of four roads to Cassino. In the central-southern sector, U.S. and Canadian soldiers took Mount Porchia (where 16 stretcher-bearers were killed), Mount Capraro, Mount Trocchio, the strongly held village of Cervaro. From Trocchio, they overlooked Cassino itself. They rushed down...
...soldier whom swashbuckling Georgie Patton struck was a volunteer; he had been in the Army four years. He had enlisted when he was 18, had served in both the Tunisian and Sicilian campaigns. The preliminary diagnosis turned out to be incomplete. He was also suffering from malaria, had a high fever...
After a rest in the U.S. (to recover from malaria and dysentery), De Luce covered the Tunisian campaign. In Italy two weeks ago he ran into British General Harold Alexander, whom he had "covered" in Burma's darkest days. Said the General with well-bred surprise: "You [newspaper] chaps get around extraordinarily well...
...First Army, trained for conquest of Northwest Africa and hardened in victory there. Only one of Anderson's divisions had been used in Sicily, the hill-taking 78th. There was U.S. Lieut. General Mark Wayne Clark's Fifth Army, built and trained behind the lines during the Tunisian and Sicilian campaigns, undoubtedly poised. Possibly included in the Fifth: two infantry divisions, the 9th and the 34th; and the 1st Armored Division, which have not been heard from since they fought Arnim south of Bizerte. There was Lieut. General George Patton's great Seventh Army-three infantry divisions...
Early in the Tunisian campaign the U.S. Medical Corps was still using the old treatment-hospitalization, long rest, etc. Only 2% of the patients were able to return to combat duty. Then U.S. doctors tried the quick method. Now at forward battalion aid stations they urge nervous cases to talk out their fears. If the men are exhausted or hold back their stories, they get barbiturate sedatives to quiet them and loosen their tongues. Once their story is told, most nervous cases feel relieved and, after a few days' rest at evacution hospitals, 60% are ready to go back...