Crushing air and infantry superiority delivered the knockout blow in Tunisia, but that punch ended a round of brutal infighting; it finished off an opponent already left breathless, staggering and backtracking from the murderous body punching of the Allied artillery.
A captured German, seven years a soldier, said: "Never have I been in artillery fire like the Americans'. The concentrations were so thick we were stupefied by the concussions." Another prisoner asked whether the U.S. artillery was belt-fed or clip-fed; fire had poured down on his position so fast that he thought...
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