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Throwing a great weight of men and guns against the British positions on Djel Azzag and surrounding heights 15 miles west of Mateur, the Germans attacked early yesterday, the dispatches said...
German resistance grew. Axis reinforcements continued to land in Tunis and Bizerte. Enemy tanks operated along the coast as far south as Sfax. But by Nov. 24 the gamble still looked good, as a British column neared Mateur, as British and French troops took Medjez-el-Bab. Sandwiched in between them British and U.S. armor rolled ahead. By the night of Nov. 26 the Allies had occupied Tébourba...
...Wave and the Weather. In the whole area, from Mateur to Tébourba, hour after hour went by in a turmoil of bombardment, tank charges and hand-to-hand encounters amidst screeching swoops by the Stukas. (Not included in the spokesman's broadcast was the point that the Allies had insufficient fighter cover. Bases near enough to the front had not yet been equipped. At any rate, judging from newspaper dispatches at the time, there were too few Allied planes...
...tanks harried them. German paratroops leap-frogged behind their extended positions trying to disrupt their communication lines. The Luftwaffe dominated the grey, dripping skies. There were disquieting reports that the Axis, pouring in airborne reinforcements from Italy, had gained numerical superiority along the fighting front. On the heights overlooking Mateur and Madjez-el Bab, Anderson's lightly armed advanced troops grimly hung on and waited for heavier troops to crawl...
They had swept past Tebourba into Djedeida, which is 15 miles from Tunis. They had succeeded in straddling the railroad line from Tunis to Bizerte. Under incessant bombardment and strafing they had pushed beyond Mateur, which is 18 miles from Bizerte. Then, after a two-day-long tank duel they had been forced to fall back. Losses were heavy on both sides. Djedeida, Mateur and Tebourba became the three corners of a no man's land...