General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery had been thrown back at the northern end of the Mareth Line. In a 15-mile-wide gap between the Matmata Mountains and the seashore, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel had ...

On the afternoon of March 22 the Germans counterattacked the Eighth Army’s positions in the Mareth Line and drove the British infantry back upon the Wadi Zigzau. In order to relieve the situation of ...

The Battle of Kasserine Pass was America's first major fight against the European Axis in World War II. It turned into one of the most humiliating defeats of the war. But that defeat sparked changes ...

In March 1943 the U.S. Army was determined to rise from the defeat at Battle of Kasserine Pass and prove its mettle. East of the Tunisian town of El Guettar, the 1st Infantry Division (the “Big Red ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roger Muirhead in 1943: he narrowly escaped being shot by American paratroopers who had landed in the wrong part of Sicily Roger ...

MANY months ago the ill-fated General von Ravenstein, just captured while leading the German Twenty-first Armored Division, remarked to the young Scottish major acting as his escort: "The Western ...