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The Freshmen. One day last November, three weeks after the Allied landing on the coast, a group of sweating U.S. tankmen halted their 750-mile dash from Oran, near the crest of a hill overlooking Tunis. The prize was twelve miles away. They had paused for orders from the officer...
In the first days of the invasion Allied engineers struggled with antiquated French locomotives which huffed & puffed along the dilapidated, single-track railway which starts at Casablanca, touches Algiers and runs on to Tunis. With U.S. rolling stock, U.S. railroad men were able to double the road's capacity...
North around Tunis and Bizerte was the Marshal's colleague, Colonel General Jiirgin von Arnim, at whose heavy face the U.S. got its first look last week (see cut). Arnim might find a soft spot in the positions of the entrenched British First Army, be able to bend back...
-Tunis Expedition (Random House; $2), to be published next month.
Three and a half hours later the Germans called his bluff. The tough, desert-hardened 21st Panzer Division and Colonel General Jürgin von Arnim's veteran 10th moved forward against Fredendall's lightly held line. According to some reports, Rommel was lying wounded in a German...