Major General Omar N. Bradley shortly before leaving for Africa, where he eventually succeeded Patton as commander of the U.S. II Corps. A prim, severe Missourian who was described as “the least dressed-up commander of an American army in the field since Zachary Taylor,” he likened rooting Axis troops from the Tunisian hills to “hunting wild goats.” 


The GI's General

Soldiers from the 60th Infantry Regiment of the 9th Division, in the hills outside Bizerte, Tunisia.
British armor entered Tunis and American infantry from II Corps, which had continued its advance in the north, occupied the port of Bizerte on May 7, 1943. 

In the hills of North Africa

A U.S. soldier from the 2nd Infantry Division is guarding a group of German POWs near the village of Schöneseiffen,  Germany, not far from the Belgian border; 1945. 
