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Tango01

26 Mar 2024 5:12 p.m. PST

"On November 8th 2nd BLT (Battalion Landing Team) of the US 60th Infantry advanced eastward inland. They skirted the Kasbah and occupied a native settlement before they faced a concerted French counter-attack supported by three old tanks, two of which were knocked out. But during the action 2nd BLT became confused and disorientated as this was their first combat experience, kept falling back and regrouping piecemeal. This left men behind, abandoned, without orders or command and faced with a determined enemy (whom they had been led to believe wouldn`t even put up a fight in the first place), the French took a number of prisoners…"

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