BATTLE OF AFRICA: Toward the Fire

All last week the British First Army, bolstered by U.S. and French units, continued its slow, careful advance. Steadily Lieut. General Kenneth A. N. Anderson's troops edged over the steep ridges of the Atlas Mountains. At week's end they were twelve miles from Tunis. The decisive battle for North Africa was imminent.

Weather had delayed the Allies. Tunisia's brief rainy season had flooded roads, complicated supply problems. But worse than the rain in Africa's grey skies were Axis planes that pummeled Anderson's forward columns, pounded his bases at Bougie and Bone, trying...

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