Prof. Greg Jackson

And as one Messerschmitt Bf 109 comes low with strafing fire, Garbage is hitting his limit.

It's time to get bold.

He shouts to his fellow battery man, Michael Neiman.

Come on, Mike.

Where are you going?

To my jeep.

When that guy comes back, I'm going to take care of him.

The sergeant sprints to the .50 caliber machine gun mounted on a nearby jeep.

Mike is hot on his heels, ready to help with belts of ammunition.

Garbage swings the gun around toward the sound of the approaching Messerschmitt as the fighter comes in for another round of strafing fire.

Garbage bellows, he's on his way again.

And that he does.

Garbage fires armor-piercing rounds directly into the plane's engine.

The Nazi aircraft bursts into flames, and garbage watches as it crashes, blazing into the ground.

The Battle of El-Ghattar is fought less than a month after George Patton takes command of the Second Corps, and it's a jaunty feather in his cap.

By the battle's end in April, it's a morale-boosting American victory, one that brings a swift end to those British-made comparisons between Americans and Italians.

The final two months of the Tunisia campaign are marked by a series of tank battles and scrappy fights for individual hills, fights that continue to squeeze the Germans into a smaller and smaller space.

The writing is on the wall, so much so that George hands command of the Second Corps to General Omar Bradley, which the tank genius needs to do so he can focus on preparations for the now certain invasion of Sicily.

And on May 7th, 1943, Omar leads the Second Corps in capturing the bombed-out port city of Bizerte, Tunisia.

At the same time, British forces are entering Tunis.