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Both points were taken yesterday after they had been in Axis possession less than 24 hours and a threat that the southwest sector of the British line at Bou Arada would be isolated was removed at least for the moment. Bon Arada is 20 miles south of Medjez-El-Bab. Fort McGregor and Tally-Ho Corner, a road junction, lies in between...
...always been important to many of us ... but never before have we found it so essential to a comprehensive and complete picture of a world at war. Without the kind of reporting that TIME gives us, the machine gunner's vision of the world is limited to his sector of fire; the pilot's to his operating radius; and the rifleman's to the extreme limit of his own eyesight...
Success In Snow. What a young Russian general (Filip Ivanovich Golikov) accomplished on a limited Russian sector (Kursk) as the week opened seemed at first to be another wonderful but local success. Actually the way Kursk was captured and the consequences of its fall shed much light on Russian potentialities...
...fortifications of the Mareth Line, built by the French atop high, naturally defensible escarpments. But the south appeared to be a likelier route for an Allied plunge into the coastal flatlands. The weather was wet, but the footing was better over sandy soil. And in the Allies' southern sector were the battle-smart veterans of the seasoned Eighth Army. With a strong show of artillery and tanks, Rommel tried to delay them. They edged...
...base hostile air and land forces, but China is of limited use to Japan's enemies until they own Burma, and the stalemated minor campaign there indicates that that is not now a danger. To the south there lies a great arc of air and naval bases, one sector of which is threatened at the Solomons...