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...Prelude. The first blow at Tunisia was struck by twin-engined bombers soaring over "Death Alley" from Malta. On the same day that Eisenhower announced the capitulation of Morocco and Algeria the bombers destroyed 19 planes and damaged 19 others on the el-Aouina airfield outside Tunis. The Nazis, for once having to worry about too little and too late, poured additional planes into the French Protectorate from bases in Sardinia and Sicily. German paratroops captured and held the airfield after French scattered garrisons under the leadership of the ubiquitous General Henri Giraud fired on the Nazis and Italians. Drawing...
...docks and in the hills. (According to some pre-invasion reports, Germans had also manned coastal batteries in North Africa.) Vichy said that two Allied corvettes were sunk; two French torpedo boats and a sloop were damaged, probably by aircraft from La Senia, Tafaraoui and one other captured airfield. Last to fall was Mers-el-Kebir's airdrome...
Past Daba, past Fuka, the Afrika Korps fled. At Daba they left their dead strewn across an airfield. German and Italian transports and gliders, not yet unloaded, lay on the ground, smashed by the machine guns of Allied planes. At Fuka dead Germans began to turn black in the desert sun. Beside the road that was pocked with bomb craters lay the ruined trucks and cars in which the Germans tried to escape. From the air, from the flanking desert, the British chased and harried as the whole terrible cavalcade of attackers and attacked rolled still farther westward...
...toward the gap at the top of the Owen Stanley Range. They started down the slope toward Buna, where the Japs landed last July. Last week they took Kokoda, a thatched native village 60 miles north of Moresby and 60 miles south of Buna, which has a small airfield. At Oivi, a few miles farther on, the Japs made a stand...
...shelter sobs and sobs and we cannot help him. Another correspondent buries his face in his hands and sits that way hour after hour. At dawn, when we come out of the ground, filthy and shaken to the heart, five Jap Zeros come over the airfield and start skywriting above us. ... The troops stand gazing up. What are they doing...