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Fredendall hung on to the southern end of his front largely through the bluff put up by a handful of U.S. paratroops and. French infantry. The Allies concentrated most of their strength north around Pichon in the Ousseltia Valley region, where they expected the Nazis to attack. Allied reconnaissance never spotted the Axis power gathering to the south near Faïd Pass. Three hours before Rommel's tanks rumbled out of Faïd Pass, General Dwight Eisenhower himself was calmly making a tour of the front only a few miles away. Fredendall was unable to switch...
...Dwight Eisenhower rode up in a jeep to inspect the Allied positions at Sidi bou Zid, a few miles west of Faïd Pass. The U.S. soldiers had just moved in to relieve French troops. The whole situation was precarious. Eisenhower had been maintaining this mountainous front-from Pichon to Faïd Pass southwest to Gafsa-largely by bluff...
...retreat raged across the waist of Tunisia, until the Allies had been driven to the eastern slope of the "Grand Dorsal" range of mountains east of Tébessa. British artillery moved up to blunt the onslaught at Sbiba. French troops withdrew from their too-forward positions at Pichon, hurried back into the new Allied line. Weary U.S. troops tried to hold Kasserine Pass, but the cocky and persistent Germans kept jabbing at them. Despite a storm of U.S. artillery fire, they seized the pass, swept on through toward Thala. With Tébessa and the whole right flank...
...Germans were trying to win the road junction of Fondouk-el-Aoubareb, six miles southeast of Pichon and 55 miles southwest of the east port of Sousse...
...Santa Paula was a goal ahead when the last chukker started. Andrada, on Yarara and Mio Mio, had scored three of the Argentines' goals. He had had his hand doctored between chukkers, played the whole field without dislocating the Santa Paula teamwork. In the last period on Pichon, a fresh pony, he still flickered down the windy field, an amazing figure of speed and courage, scored the last two goals which gave Santa Paula the championship...