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Description
Mr. Baggs describes the "beaten army" surrendering in North Africa (Tunisia).
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Interviewer: How did they appear? They were marched back to a concentration area by their own NCOs and officers. They had thrown away their weapons. They were completely beaten anyway and rather than be driven right into the sea, or blown to smithereens, which we would have done, they just had enough of it and they downed their weapons and marched - 200,000 of them. I rode up and down the side of the column one day and all these fellas they were seeing this fella with his head bandaged up, instead of being back at the hospital somewhere. They must've figured we were a hard crowd.
Interviewer: Did they look like a beaten army?
Oh yes very much so. Interviewer: So there was no cockiness or arrogance?
No, no, no, no they were beaten and they wanted out, and prisoner war camp was a better deal than staying in the line.