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...week's end, as Allied planes pounded Sfax, Sousse, other Axis supply ports, Arnim exploded into a frenzy of activity, driving against French-held positions near Robaa and Kairouan below Tunis. His effort was to make room for Rommel to crawl in beside him and to divert Allied strength from the southern end of the Axis corridor. For a while his powerful tank attack looked as though it would develop into a full-scale offensive until Giraud's Frenchmen, supported by British and U.S. troops, stiffened and hung...
...heavy bombers of the R.A.F. and the U.S. Ninth Air Force, based somewhere in Libya, flew to Sfax and Sousse. It was days before a momentarily confused enemy, with his alarm nets spread to the north and west, realized whence came these new onslaughts (see p. 26). Malta-based bombers also helped. At week's end dispatches reported La Goulette, port of Tunis, knocked out, Bizerte, Sfax and Sousse rapidly being rendered unusable...
...Allies "accounted for two to one in individual combat," Mr. Stimson said. At week's end, able to get in the air again after a stretch of bad weather which had grounded them, Flying Fortresses escorted by P-38s and P-405 bombed Bizerte and Sfax. The P-40s were Warhawks, newest version of the Hawks (others: Tomahawks, Kittyhawks). making their debut on the Tunisian front...
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...
Constant Allied raids on Italian depots disrupted Axis transportation at its source. Constant Allied attacks were slowly demolishing African receiving points. One day last week heavy bombers ranged for eight hours over smoking La Goulette, port of Tunis. Light and heavy bombers pounded Bizerte and railroad lines near Sfax and Gabés. Growing Allied air power was getting an edge on the Luftwaffe. General James Doolittle's Twelfth Air Force announced that U.S. flyers since the beginning of the campaign had destroyed 70 enemy planes, damaged 43. U.S. losses...