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Maison-Blanche fell without a fight; U.S. paratroops seized Blida airdrome. U.S troops marched quickly inland to cut the Algiers-Oran railway. U.S. and British fighters and light bombers flew in to the captured airdromes from carriers; other bombers arrived, probably from Gibraltar...
...landings were at Arzew, on a promontory 25 miles northeast of Oran. On the narrow, easily accessible shore between the hills and the sea, other forces seized Bou Sfer and Cap Signale, west of the city. Then they drove for: 1) Oran's four airdromes, 2) the parallel railway and highway coursing down the coastal plain. By land, on the flanks and in the rear of the historic city, the encirclement was swift and totally effective...
...army's chief base at Marrakech, 100 miles from the sea in the high Atlas Mountains. At Marrakech, if anywhere, army units loyal to Vichy would probably make their stand. But with Marrakech in hand, the U.S. troops would also have the southern terminus of Morocco's railway system and command of a rail route to Casablanca itself...
...them, found themselves on a sandy stretch of desert just east of Matrûh with one Italian general and 80 Italian officers pleading to be taken to a prisoners' camp. "The best thing I can suggest," one colonel said, "is for you to proceed to the Fuka railway station and take the train to Alexandria." They did. In another area German lorry drivers piled their trucks full of Italians and, without escort, drove them up the coast road to British rear bases...
Most important defeat was in Baltimore, where the citizens trounced a $32,000,000 waterworks loan despite fervent pleas by their Mayor. San Francisco voters rejected a $7,950,000 appropriation to buy the 50-year-old Market Street Railway, partly because they thought the city fathers were not cut out to be gentlemen motormen. Austin, Tex. citizens rebuffed a $2,000,000 building loan. Cleveland voters tossed out two ambiguous special taxes for "operating, welfare and relief...