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.
By mistake they drove right in far ahead of the British First Army (which was still mopping up in the suburbs), pulled up as big as life at Nazi headquarters in the Majestic Hotel before the last Germans had cleared out. There weren't any Allied troops within three or four miles, but so many natives and Frenchmen turned out to cheer Lang and his...
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