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...time Patton's three tank columns had pierced through to Casablanca, all coastal French Morocco, from Agadir in the south to the Spanish Moroccan border on the north, was in American hands...
Best estimates gave the Germans upwards of 10,000 men in Tunisia at first. They were chiefly flyers and technicians. The downing in three days of 20 transport planes hindered but did not break up a feverish Nazi shuttle service. Allied land troops in Morocco and Algeria greatly outnumbered those of the Axis, but only part of them were able to take the road to Tunis. And there was a possibility that one of the great air battles of the war would develop if Hitler gambled 1,000 or more of his best flyers in a desperate bid to keep...
They made mistakes. A plane bombed an Algerian airdrome whose commanders had already been "arranged," causing a three-hour argument before the field was surrendered and planes flew in from a carrier offshore. A few transport and bomber pilots lost their way, landed in Spanish Morocco and were interned...
...Churchill promised last week. They can pound the Nazis in southern France. They can keep tabs on the French fleet at Toulon. They can harass, if not prevent, any Axis move through Spain toward Gibraltar and the Mediterranean ports of Spain. With ground troops they can move upon Spanish Morocco if Franco wavers in his neutrality. By the Allies in North Africa, the Allies in Britain and the Allies in Russia, every foot of Nazi territory can now be attacked from...
...Road to Morocco (Paramount) is interrupted midway by a Hapsburg-looking camel who remarks: "This is the screwiest picture I was ever in." No strangers to screwballistics, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour may well agree with...