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"We had a real victory dinner of roast beef, carrots and plenty of good red wine that night while rifle and machine gun fire was still crackling up and down the dark streets outside," Lang cabled, "and then we three correspondents slept in the Majestic-the only Allied garrison in...
As far as I can make out, TIME Correspondent Will Lang and four companions (a French reporter, an American newscaster and two English soldiers) were the first men in United Nations uniform to reach the center of Tunis.
Tanks swept through to the plain of Tunis - and eventually to the capital - in force never before shown by the Allies in that theater of war. The Germans were caught flat-footed by masterful diversion and overwhelming concentration.
Cooperation between air and land had never been so smooth for the Allies. Said Marshal Coningham to his flyers after the victory: "The capture of Tunis and Bizerte sets the seal on your past mastery and present dominance of African air. But of deeper significance and more lasting value is...
The cape itself affords a fairly good defensive position-a narrow neck of land with some mountains at its base which make an impressive sight from ancient Carthage across the Gulf of Tunis. It is not nearly as wild as Bataan, for it has open olive groves and flat fields...