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...potent have anti-tank defenses be come (TIME, March 29) that the Panzer division's infantry (one regiment) is no longer powerful enough against strong resistance to clear the way for its tanks...
Marshal Rommel reportedly asked for Jürgen von Arnim as coequal commander in Tunisia. The two had worked together on tank tactics through the years. In the early days of the reconstituted Wehrmacht, Arnim commanded the First Panzer Regiment. Later he was shifted back to infantry, which he commanded in Poland. He helped develop the cooperation of tanks and infantry within armored di visions, and in hilly Tunisian terrain where the uses of tanks are limited, his expertness in such liaison will be valuable...
...past months into specific and personal detail; it shows, in the determined action and tense faces of the men themselves, how the Eighth Army halted its retreat, "dug in" to hold off Field Marshal Rommel, and knocked his "invincible" strategy into a cocked hat by breaking through the German panzer wall and advancing some 1400 miles through desert dust...
Rommel, who is never blind, sensed the move and shifted a Panzer division to El Hamma. The flankers, men whom Montgomery had used before for shock jobs-the 2nd New Zealanders under Lieut. General Sir Bernard C. Freyberg-drew themselves up for attack. Then, on a Friday afternoon at 4 p.m., came a violent and perfect expression of the use of tactical air force...
...first battle of El Guettar took place fortnight ago, when the 10th Panzer Division was driven southeast of the dusty Arab village, and U.S. infantry was in turn driven back from its forward positions on Djebel el Kreroua (TIME, April...