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An Allied Medical Conference was held last week in the semicircular lecture hall of the University of Algiers. French doctors played host. About 100 British and U.S. doctors and a few Russians attended. There was real, prewar Gallic bonhomie provided by French doctors from Algiers (e.g., Professor Edmond Benhamou of...
Three weeks later Lang was the first American correspondent to enter gutted Naples-just ten minutes behind the advance British reconnaissance cars. (It's a habit with him-last spring Lang and four companions rode into Tunis twelve hours ahead of the Army, pulled up at Nazi headquarters before...
Allied commanders had set May 3, 1943 as the day for the climactic attack on Tunis and Bizerte. At the last moment there was a hitch: bad weather had grounded reconnaissance planes and there were no photographs of the enemy positions. The attack was postponed.
Three nights later, the needed pictures were in hand and Allied artillery opened fire on pinpointed targets. By morning, every enemy gun had been silenced. Many had received direct hits; none was missed by more than five yards. The Germans and Italians were so astonished at the gunners' accuracy...
The Eighth's new chief has long worn the Crusader patch on his shoulder: he had led the Eighth's XXX Corps, its tank spearpoint, all the desert way from El Alamein to Tunis. Son of a Hertfordshire solicitor, product of Eton and the Coldstream Guards, Sir Oliver...