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...Homma-Wadi el Akarit line the performance was repeated. And while the final break-through was being readied by General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander's ground forces, Coningham's airmen continued their slash-and-bomb tactics. They were still at it when the last resistance on Cap Bon finally broke down...
...served well as the walls of a kind of cylinder. The Eighth Army had been the piston. And if Rommel was now getting compressed beyond repair, it was because the Eighth Army had done such a splendid job of crushing his rear guard at the Wadi el Akarit...
Another Wadi. The Wadi el Akarit was the strong natural position at which Rommel chose to challenge the Eighth Army's passage through the Gabes bottleneck (see map). The position was compact-only about twelve miles across. It consisted of the shallow gully of the Wadi itself and, behind it, two hills called Djebel Fatnassa and Djebel Roumana, 800 and 400 feet high respectively...
Rommel had pulled away almost intact, leaving behind a few Italianate droppings (the Eighth Army claimed only 8,000 prisoners, almost all Italian). The Axis armor had moved swiftly northward through the Gabes bottleneck, had settled down for at least a temporary stand at the Wadi el Akarit, a gulch about 16 miles north of Gabes...
Driving over rocky cliffs southeast of E1 Guettar under heavy fire from hidden German 88-millimeter cannon, the American feet soldiers were advancing due cast toward Field Marshall Erwin Rommel's positions on the Wadi Akarit only 38 miles beyond...
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