ROMMEL’S MEN
SUCCESS AT FIAD PASS London, Feb. 8. The United States troops returning from the battle for Fiad Pass reveal that the German troops who captured it were one of Field Marshal Rommel’s panzer divisions, entirely reequipped with tanks and armoured vehicles from General von Amim’s stores. Reporting this, Reuter’s Algiers correspondent says Rommel, with some seasoned veterans pushed north as fast as possible leaving the remnants of equipment for the Italians who were holding the Mareth Line. The Italians were once more left behind by their German comrades. Rommel, unencumbered, was able to move very quickly and there is little doubt that the operational liaison between him and von Arnim has been effective for some time. With the arrival and re-equipping of Rommel’s crack troops, the likelihood of an Allied thrust to the sea in southern Tunisia to cut German communications in the vicinity of Gabes seems increasingly remote.—P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 9 February 1943, Page 5
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