World Battlefronts, THE MEDITERRANEAN: This Waterway

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There was a stiff breeze, and the blue Mediterranean waves wore little white hats. A seaman on the deck of a destroyer looked at those waves and at the shore of Tunisia beyond, and said: "I've been in three evacuations—Norway, France and Crete. I'm glad. . . ."

He was glad because now he could savor the destroyer's task: to prevent a single German or Italian from escaping by sea and by day from the beaches of Cap Bon. This was the climax of the first great British-U.S. victory in the war,...