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Farther to the south, where the footing was firmer, French troops and mechanized U.S. units advanced toward the exotic holy Moslem city of Kairouan. Seizure of Kairouan would threaten Axis communication lines along the whole Tunisian east coast. In the an, the 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...
...Tunisian campaign was still at a stalemate (see below), but General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery continued to roll along the flat and ugly coast. Transport planes helped move up his vast and vital supplies. Last week, when his Eighth Army marched under the ludicrous triumphal Marble Arch near El Aghéila, one of several which Mussolini had erected along his African highway, he was farther west than any British commander had ever been before in the long, seesaw African campaign...
...forces began pouring into Tunis and Bizerte by sea and air at the rate of 1,000 men a day. On Nov. 11 Anderson's troops ploughed into Bougie. German dive-bombers peppered them, but they rolled steadily over the precipitous spurs of the Atlas Mountains toward the Tunisian border, 175 miles away. British and U.S. paratroops leapfrogged ahead into Tunisian airdromes. In seven days Anderson's English and Scottish soldiers had crossed the border and were meeting the first violent effort of Axis ground troops to stop them. Thirty German tanks and 400 infantrymen attacked and fell...
...other battles were being fought which would in the end settle the Tunisian campaign. These were battles to control the sea and the sky and destroy the enemy's vital arteries...
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...