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Rommel's punishing lunge and successful withdrawal through Kasserine Gap is now history. A footnote to that history was a frank report from Allied headquarters last week, citing the failure of U.S. troops to cover their retreat with land mines. When Rommel withdrew he probably saved himself by his skillful use of mines. The U.S. command made other mistakes, not the least of which was splitting their armored units into small groups with which the experienced Germans dealt quickly and savagely...
Reinforced Japanese troops switched last week from defense to attack. Three divisions of Japs, by their usual method of wily infiltration, moved north through Burma's matted jungle, over Burma's ragged ridges. British troops fell back up the Mayu River. In a parallel retreat, Indian troops withdrew along the Kaladan River, hurriedly cut across the Mayu Peninsula to avoid encirclement...
...World War II Nazi Panzers swarmed through Poland, crushing everything before them. They pushed through the Lowlands and France to Dunkirk. The weapon Germany's enemies had neglected between wars seemed to be irresistible. The U.S. hurriedly withdrew its few light tanks from the cavalry and infantry and used them as a nucleus for an Armored Force. Bigger guns were mounted on bigger tanks (while U.S. factories in a prodigious tank program poured out earlier, obsolete models). Still heavier armor and welded construction appeared. By 1943, the U.S. Armored Force had burgeoned to 14 divisions...
...that morning, as suddenly as they had started their drive ten days before from Faïd Pass (TIME, Feb. 22), the Germans turned tail and withdrew...
...five days the battle of pursuit and 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...