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The US Army starts to take casualties

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The US Army starts to take casualties

2nd February 1943: As the US Army begins its first engagements in the European Theatre in Tunisia, the grim reality of war suddenly emerges

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Bespattered with blood and oil after a strafing attack by Messerschmitts, a wounded American half-track gunner vainly tried to swallow a sulfa tablet. The attending officer subsequently flushed it down his throat with water. Tunisia, 194

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