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Tunisian Campaign (view source)
Revision as of 02:09, September 17, 2016
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Gradually, after much hard fighting, the 1st Army advancing from the west and the 8th Army advancing from the south pushed the Axis forces into a pocket around Tunis.
Gradually, after much hard fighting, the 1st Army advancing from the west and the 8th Army advancing from the south pushed the Axis forces into a pocket around Tunis.
==Tunis==
The final British offensive began on 5 May with the 5th Corps gaining the hills which dominated the Tunis plain and the 9th Corps advancing on the morning of 6 May. By the afternoon their infantry had gained their objective, and the British 6th and 7th Armoured Divisions, swept forward and entered Tunis on 7 May. On the same day the American 2nd Corps and Free French Corps d'Afrique took Bizerta.
By 9 May the German force in the northern pocket had been completely mopped up, while the divisions of the 1st Army then turned to assist in the encirclement of the 1st Italian Army, which they achieved between 11-13 May.
==Casualties==
==Casualties==