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Word: tunisians (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bomb & Strafe. That was the story of what happened last week along the whole northern Tunisian front. For Lieut. General Kenneth A. N. Anderson the Tunisian campaign had become a problem of air support and supply. His First Army had crawled along the Atlas Mountains, across ancient Roman bridges, through grey-green olive orchards, along roads choked with dust-long columns of light troops, motorized infantry, mobile artillery and some rumbling tanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF AFRICA: Race | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

Hitler had capitalized on his temporary advantage to rush more troops to the aid of his Tunisian commander, Major General Walther Nehring. Some of them were transported by huge Ju-528, which Allied planes chased and harassed. Many of them poured in from ships that made the short dash from Sicily. The British Admiralty announced that British subs sank nine of these vessels: tankers and cargo carriers laden with tanks, guns, materiel. But Axis ships continued to land at Bizerte at the rate of two a day. Estimates were that Nehring's force now numbered between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF AFRICA: Toward the Fire | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

...Tunisian Maginot Line. When the Fascist Chamber of Deputies began to clamor for French territory, the Packards went to Tunis. Reynolds visited the Berthome (Tunisian Maginot) Line, which "was located between the Libyan frontier and Médenine and consisted mostly of elaborate underground works where whole battalions could hide. There were tank traps and miles of barbed wire, intended specifically to halt cavalry and camel corps. . . . Every oasis was a fortress in itself, complete with machine-gun nests, concrete redoubts, subterranean air-raid shelters, and still more barbed wire entanglements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Il Duce's Volcano | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

From Britain came Will Lang with the "center force" of the American troops which landed at Oran-and Line Barnett, who sailed with the British forces and landed near Bone on the Tunisian border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 30, 1942 | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

Britain's First Army carried the attack. First the U.S. forces had moved into Algeria and French Morocco with the help of the R.A.F. and Royal Navy. During the initial landings the First Army remained offshore in a vast convoy, landed near the Tunisian border only when U.S. forces had secured the rear in Algeria and had solved the first, delicate problems of relations with the French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF AFRICA: The Scythe and the Ring | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

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