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Seven Days. They arrived equipped for fast, offensive warfare. There were few heavy trucks to carry supplies. (Rommel had used 50,000 trucks in his advance on El Alamein.) There was little material for repairing and maintaining airfields. These things had been sacrificed to make room for men and the...
It seemed clear that he had never hoped to hold. Apparently his shattered Afrika Korps, filled out with odds & ends of Italians, had been a secondary concern of the German High Command, whose primary objective was to hang on to Tunis and Bizerte and strike back in northwestern Africa. The...
Anderson's advance columns, fingering in toward the Axis strongholds of Tunis and Bizerte on the seacoast, were mauled and forced back. German 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...
Unstuck? Then at week's end came brighter reports. Heavy and medium U.S. bombers unleashed two days of concentrated raiding on the docks of Tunis. The waterfront of that seaport was left in flames over a distance of ten blocks. Allied fighter operations were suddenly on the increase. P...
If these were signs that the Allies had gained the initiative in the west, then Montgomery's advance might be the signal that Eisenhower and Anderson were able at last to get up off their knees and launch an all-out fight for Tunis and Bizerte.