cruisers on the flanks and beyond the horizon the battleship earlier washington d c the president of the united states welcomed the prime minister of great britain the gravity of the moment that brought them together the right burned eighths of the world's population would be by morning a decision bold and revolutionary bold because and this darkest hour we dared to take the offensive revolutionary because that offensive was conceived planned and executed by the peoples of two nations the time and the place had been agreed upon an operation involving hundreds of thousands of american and british soldiers and sailors millions of american and british working men and women only by whose combined efforts but the plan to come to reality  on both sides of the atlantic the effort was tremendous would divide for twelve hours the two halves would proceed in opposite directions then the second half would reverse its course and follow the first passing gibraltar twenty four hours behind that's with clock best news for a long time i just put it out on the ship's boa but the eighth time is offensive with only one face of a larger strategy included there in bombings and general two days later the germans invaded and occupied france whereupon admiral darling declaring pay to have prisoner of the axis and himself chief of state ordered to sation of hostilities in proof of the surprise of our landings german armistice commissions were caught flatfooted in each city that job's to blame north africa raw materials and the people of north africa but evidently not sorry to see them go american forces one needed to safeguard our position in morocco we had other disadvantages roads  november twenty first the roads became running stre occupied coastal plains from the mountainous regions to the west german expansion was possible only through a series of passes traversing the great doorstep and all through the winter months we held those passes against incessant german attack this was the period referred to by the world as one of military activity period during which we sustained nearly half the total casualties incurred during the whole north african campaign that's right when you read in your papers a better love those that don't apply to george metcalf in the four bloody infantry never did we are on the job every night patrols in the hills and in the woods the supply routes to spend on the german side one hundred fifty miles of water and on our side hundreds of miles of land and then thousands of miles of water the longest assembly lines in the world were in operation from the factories of the united states owner of a major campaign a campaign to be fought with scipio it fought and hannibal where already three times in history great armies of been destroyed between the mountains and the sea these hills and plains where again to  the tempest of battle not now the trumpeting of elephants but the crash of tanks and artillery not now an empire but a way of life stak i wondered what the moorish girls looked like behind the veil wonder and was about as far as we got one sunday the middle of january in africa and beyond first meeting was arranged between generals the golden general who had succeeded admiral dollar assassinated a month earlier out of the meeting was to grow the union of the fighting french who had never lost hope and the french for whom the whole schema dovetailing of c'mon unique and military camp in its we fixed the terms which would end the fighting unconditional surrender of all these decisions our russian and chinese allies were kept fifty two tiger tanks were left burning from then on the initiative was  of the various strategies which might now be employed against the enemy general eisenhower chose one which and there's age the entire military situation in terms of a cylinder the western wall allied land forces along the great dors would explode possible max that was the final strategy to succeed perfect coordination would be necessary between land sea and air forces the north west african air force commanded by general spots was divided into five major groups of which three were combat the strategic air force under general jimmy doolittle these with the big boys the long range bombers pounding away at enemy bases and shipping coastal air force under martial law a day and night fighters the protecting ports and convoy and finally the tactical air force a new conception of there by the british in the middle east all fighters three days before the attack it rained heav then army doctors attending the the women in the youngsters just as if i was on the panel back i certainly did the rapid advance of the eighth army had left the american divisions but nasional guitar far behind the battle area general alexander now switched these divisions to the north this remarkable two hundred or greatest mass surrender of fully equipped troops in modern history we had lost nearly seventy thousand men dead and wounded and missing thirty five thousand british eighteen times and americans fifteen thousand french but for every man we had lost the enemy lost and at the end hunger fighting to the last bare hand educated in the school for power they were quick to recognize a perrier power and when my dad i quit quick call this is the end of the axis african adventure just because he was told that he was a superman why he never figured things out for yourself never argue the toss same as we do too bad he didn't hear some arguments of the old dog and fox back a little i guess that's the real difference between us and