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Just 42 days after the fall of Tunis, a photographic record of the U.S. African campaign went up on the walls of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. It was a one-man show by LIFE Staff Photographer Eliot Elisofon (pronounced, by pals, Hellzapoppin). In it were 113 pictures...
¶InNorth Africa Hersey takes the place of Senior Foreign News Editor Charles Wertenbaker, who spent three months at the front in Tunisia, followed the Americans to Gafsa, to Maknassy, to El Guettar, to Fondouk and almost to Mateur. He missed the dramatic entry into Tunis only because he had...
The first phase of the battle for Axis-held southern Europe has already begun. Since the fall of Tunis, Allied airmen of the Strategic Air Force have smashed steadily at Axis first lines of defense on the Mediterranean islands of Pantelleria, Lampedusa, Sicily and Sardinia. Last week the range and...
After the capture of Tunis, Anderson's army paused to fight very few engagements with the enemy but instead pushed out toward Cap Bon in many divergent columns. In principle they infiltrated the enemy much as the Japs infiltrated the British in Malaya and Burma. German and Italian units...
Gafsa & El Guettar. On the night of March 17-18 General Terry Allen's 1st Division traveled 45 miles by truck to launch a surprise attack on Gafsa at daybreak. Purpose: to establish Gafsa as a supply base for the Eighth Army. The first shell that pitched toward Gafsa...