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*In St. George's churchyard John Howard Payne, author of Home, Sweet Home, lies buried. Payne was American consul at Tunis when he died there in 1852.
After the fall of Tunis, only the justly famous 90th Light Infantry Division and the 164th Panzer Grenadiers continued to fight in the manner we expected from an army. The 90th, which had been the backbone of the Afrika Korps, finally agreed to surrender-but only to their old enemy...
The Germans, the authors of blitzes, could not understand a blitz in reverse. The quick push on Tunis, though it was the obvious move, gave the enemy a shock greater than that of all our shells and bombs.
From that shock the Germans and Italians never recovered. Their commanders undoubtedly had foreseen the fall of Tunis. Nevertheless they failed to appreciate what a little blitz of 40 miles would do to their own armies. Psychologically, they broke down.
"Catch Them Here." One reason for the enemy's miserable debacle was the fact that his Intelligence was unbelievably bad. Many German and Italian officers did not know that Tunis had fallen. As late as May 11, four days after the fall of Tunis, German officers from rest camps...