Word: beja
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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During the Mateur and Bizerte battles the Charlotte Evac was just behind the lines. The unit got so good at moving that in the final North African push it discharged patients in Beja and received some in Tunis (some 55 miles apart) on the same...
...Like Rommel, Arnim hoped to hamper Allied concentration, demolish Allied equipment - anything to delay the showdown. After hot hand-to-hand fighting he pushed the British out of the one village (Sedjenane), lost 3,000 men, 30 tanks. The British said that their losses were light. They still held Beja and Medjez-el-Bab - and Arnim was frustrated until he could take those two key points. If he could capture Beja with its pretty, tile-roofed houses and its oft-bombed rub ble, the whole Allied line would have to fall back; the final Allied offensive might be set back...