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Hardly anybody had supposed Tunis and Bizerte would fall so soon. This time Americans, who for so long had been expecting too much, had expected too little. There were no celebrations, no hoopla and hullabaloo; a few Senators made proper comments; the President sent messages of congratulations to the commanders...
At El Alamein, at Bengasi, at Tripoli, at the Mareth Line and finally at Bizerte and Tunis, the battle for the southern shore of the Mediterranean had been won by the Allies. Now it was time to fight for the islands of that sea and for its northern shores.
Thus, suddenly, breathtakingly, sooner than anyone had expected, the battle of Tunisia was decided. These surrenders were the beginning of a roundup in the Tunis-Bizerte area of 64,000 German prisoners, 330 tanks, 500 guns, 4,000 trucks. Other Axis troops fled toward Cap
Again the Eighth. The second factor in the victory was a sneak by important armored and infantry units of the Eighth Army. They hustled from their dormant sector on the southeastern end of the line up to the First Army's toughest sector, the Medjerda Valley approach to Tunis...
The heaviest burden in the first phase fell on the British First Army, which had been assigned the job of clearing the rim of the plain of Tunis and running out on to the plain itself. The First had done most of this job. The height known as Long Stop...