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British 10th Corps Churning Through Soft Sand

Creator
Cobb, John Candler, II, 1919-2016
Creation Date
1943/03
Who
WWII driver
When
WWII
Where
North Africa
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Photo: John C. Cobb, courtesy AFS Archives, NY.

It was a wild scene, hundred of vehicles speeding, getting stuck, getting pulled out, churning noisily on several parallel tracks through this long ago reconnoitered secret route through Wider’s Gap, around the left flank of the German’s fortified Mareth line.

Location: Wilder’s Gap, Tunisia.