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==Tunis==

==Tunis==

The 1st Army's drive towards Tebourba was heavily contested, with several German counter-attacks. The Allied attackers, however made good progress, taking Longstop Hill, Jebel Bou Aoukas, threatening to to encircle Pont du Fahs. The attacks convince Von Arnim that the Allied main effort would be made in the south and that he had little to fear from the 8th Army.

The 1st Army's drive towards Tebourba was heavily contested, with several German counter-attacks. The Allied attackers, however made good progress, taking Longstop Hill, Jebel Bou Aoukas, threatening to to encircle Pont du Fahs. The attacks convinced von Arnim that the Allied main effort would be made in the south and that he had little to fear from the north.

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. The village of Massicault, which had been prepared for hedgehog defence, fell without resistance. 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.  

The final Allied 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. The village of Massicault, which had been prepared for hedgehog defence, fell without resistance. By the afternoon the US 1st Infantry Division 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 US 2nd Corps and Free French ''Corps d'Afrique'' took Bizerta.  

As the US 2nd Corps units pushed on to cut the Bizerte-Tunis road, they found surrendering Axis units clogging the roads, impeding further advance. Several German commanders had already been flown out, and entire German divisions began surrendering on 9 May, including 30,000 German POWs that surrendered to a British armoured car squadron.<ref>"The German fighting spirit ebbed to nothingness and tens of thousands of Nazi soldiers threw up their arms and raised white flags in surrender to a squadron of Brtish armored cars that reached Cape Bon's Lighthouse Hill at 3 p.m. today ... The Germans made no real attempt to hold Cape Bon. They quit cold. I could have outfitted a division with the rifles, machine guns and artillery discarded by the enemy alogn the 40-mile road fromthe neck to the tip of Bon peninsula along which I drove behind a string of armoured cars since noon ... Hitler fed them well, dressed them well and inspired them with what they thought almost a holy mission. But they did nto fight today. They quit. [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19430513&id=5DcxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=AWoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3882,6649318&hl=enGerman Fighting Spriti Missing As Troops Rush To Surrender, By Daniel De Luce, Associated Press Staff Writer, 11 May 1943]</ref>

As the US 2nd Corps units pushed on to cut the Bizerte-Tunis road, they found surrendering Axis units clogging the roads, impeding further advance. Several German commanders had already been flown out, and entire German divisions began surrendering on 9 May, including 30,000 German POWs that surrendered to a British armoured car squadron.<ref>"The German fighting spirit ebbed to nothingness and tens of thousands of Nazi soldiers threw up their arms and raised white flags in surrender to a squadron of Brtish armored cars that reached Cape Bon's Lighthouse Hill at 3 p.m. today ... The Germans made no real attempt to hold Cape Bon. They quit cold. I could have outfitted a division with the rifles, machine guns and artillery discarded by the enemy alogn the 40-mile road fromthe neck to the tip of Bon peninsula along which I drove behind a string of armoured cars since noon ... Hitler fed them well, dressed them well and inspired them with what they thought almost a holy mission. But they did nto fight today. They quit. [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19430513&id=5DcxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=AWoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3882,6649318&hl=enGerman Fighting Spriti Missing As Troops Rush To Surrender, By Daniel De Luce, Associated Press Staff Writer, 11 May 1943]</ref>