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All last week the British First Army, bolstered by U.S. and French units, continued its slow, careful advance. Steadily Lieut. General Kenneth A. N. Anderson's troops edged over the steep ridges of the Atlas Mountains. At week's end they were twelve miles from Tunis. The decisive...
In the beginning the Axis had the edge. Hitler had poured in air strength. His African air chief, Air Field Marshal Erhard Milch, had the advantage of air bases close to the fighting front. Milch's fighters snarled out from Bizerte and Tunis; bombers roared from Sicily and Sardinia...
Nehring had extended his slender fingerhold down the coast to Sfax and Gabès. But his biggest concentration was inside the ring around Bizerte and Tunis.
Somewhere in Algeria, Ike Eisenhower, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham and Major General James Doolittle conferred with Sir Arthur William Tedder, R.A.F. chief in the Middle East,* and Major General Lewis Brereton, chief of U.S. Middle East air forces. Tedder and Brereton had flown in from Egypt. The moment Tunis was...
Unofficial dispatches said Axis forces were now boxed up in three steel-partitioned sectors of Tunisia while the Allies hammered them unmercifully in preparation for the supreme assault on the isolated garrisons in Bizerte and Tunis.