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New thousands of U.S. troops landed along the 1,500-mile Moroccan-Algerian coastline. They picked up the cry: "Let's head east!" "East" meant Tunisia first, and after that a juncture with the British Eighth Army for the final mop-up somewhere in Libya of General Rommel'...
The Prelude. The first blow at Tunisia was struck by twin-engined bombers soaring over "Death Alley" from Malta. On the same day that Eisenhower announced the capitulation of Morocco and Algeria the bombers destroyed 19 planes and damaged 19 others on the el-Aouina airfield outside Tunis. The Nazis...
Best estimates gave the Germans upwards of 10,000 men in Tunisia at first. They were chiefly flyers and technicians. The downing in three days of 20 transport planes hindered but did not break up a feverish Nazi shuttle service. Allied land troops in Morocco and Algeria greatly outnumbered those...
>The whole Axis foothold in Africa is likely to collapse. Allied troops can attack Triopoli by the easy route from Tunis. In that event Rommel, running before the British, cannot use the 600 miles of virtually waterless desert between Bengasi and Tripoli as a refuge in which to recover his...
>With the airports of French North Africa in Allied hands, land-based Allied planes will be able to defend British convoys headed eastward through the Mediterranean. With the rail and highway route from Casablanca to Tunis, the Allies will not need Mediterranean convoys -even fighters can be flown to Malta...