[Homer_J_Simpson]

Invasion One Topic (Lawrence) – 2
‘Last Tank Battle’ (Kluckhohn) – 3
Allied Clean-Up in Bizerte and Tunis: Cornering Axis Snipers and Prisoners (photos) – 4-5
300 Planes Bomb Marsala; Pantelleria Attacked Twice – 6
Flow of Captives Taxes First Army (Middleton) – 7
War News Summarized – 7
‘Toe’ of Italy Put in State of Alert (Brigham, Archambault) – 8
British Send Troops to Dominica, Cite U.S.-Martinique ‘Situation’ – 9
Guadalcanal ‘Hell’ Told to Doctors (by William L. Laurence) – 10
Ruiz Guinazu Hails Reaction to Creed – 10
Tunisia’s Lessons Aid Allies’ Power (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 12-14
Rommel Long Ill, Germans Explain – 14
Knox Looks to Use of Mediterranean Route; Discounts Axis Air Threat to Shipping Now – 14
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 15-17
Reckoning Ship Tonnage (by Arthur Krock) – 17
Books of the Times: The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand (reviewed by Orville Prescott) – 18

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/may1943/f12may43.htm

German commander in Tunisia gives up
Wednesday, May 12, 1943 www.onwar.com

General von Arnim surrenders [photo at link].

In Tunisia... General von Arnim surrenders to the Allies. Italian General Messe is promoted to Field Marshal by Mussolini in hopes of encouraging him to continue fighting.

In the Solomon Islands... Admiral Ainsworth leads 4 cruisers and 7 destroyers in two groups to shell Vila and Munda. American ships lay more mines near New Georgia Island.

In Washington... The Trident Conference. Roosevelt and Churchill meet to discuss strategy. The Americans seek a commitment to an invasion of western Europe. The British seek a commitment to an invasion of Italy and possibly the Balkans.

[BroJoeK]

"Books of the Times: The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand (reviewed by Orville Prescott) – 18"

The Fountainhead was my introduction to Ayn Rand, loved it and went on to read most of her other books.

Our NYTimes book reviewer - Orville Prescott -- seems to "get" Rand's writing intensity, though not so much her reasons for it.
But who knows, possibly her future books will help enlighten the poor soul. ;-)

Or, maybe not. This is, after all, the New York Times.

[BroJoeK]

In 1943 Ayn Rand was 38, so perhaps this photo is representative:

[colorado tanker]

Interesting stuff today, Homer.

Hanson Baldwin was a great war correspondent. He obviously had studied military organizations and tactics carefully. Baldwin was right on the mark today. The cross-Channel invasion could have been a disaster without the bloodying and training the military services got in North Africa.

"Never in the history of human conflict have so few been commanded by so many." LOL!

It looks like the military headshrinkers are on the path to identifying what we would later call PTSD from the veterans of Guadalcanal.