The team moved in a group of four with one man scouting 40 yards in front. All of the team members, including Phil, were to rotate through this assignment.
When the team reached a designated switching station along the track, 65 kilometers from Sfax, they would set an azimuth of 15 degrees and proceed north, northeast. The team would hide and rest up during the day. They would begin the trek again at night.
They expected to be north of Sfax in three nights. If everything went well—two or three nights later—a British submarine would pick them up in along the northern shore of the Gulf of Gabes.
Two and a half hours into the trek north, Sergeant Jean Chagny, acting as scout, brought the group to an abrupt halt. He’d seen something troubling.
Genero and Anton snuck forward to check out th
