TIME's Foreign News and Battlefronts Editor Charles Wertenbaker returned last week from a three months' assignment as war correspondent in North Africa. This is his report on how the U.S. Army fought:
The Battle of Africa became history last week. To the U.S. soldiers who fought their way across Tunisia's dust-whipped plains and along the bald ridges of Djebel Berda and Djebel Tahent it was history of a peculiarly intimate kind, for in battle each soldier is alone. To Private Alvan Mendelsohn it was a foxhole on a hilltop beyond El Guettar, reading...
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