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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.  

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<ref>"At 11 a.m. yesterday Major General Krause, commanding artillery of the Africa corps sent an emissary to Maj. Gen. Omar N. Bradley and requested an armistice so the surrender might be negotiated ... The wholescale surrender of the enemy battalions began and by early afternoon all the northern region where the enemy had been cut off by the wedge the British First Army drove through was cleaned up. The bulk of the German armor was there and the total of prisoners was over 25,000, in addition to another 25,000 taken by the British. Five other generals were among those who surrendered wit Krause. They were Major General Borowitz, commander of the 15th armored division; Major General Neuffer, commander of the air force artillery division; Lieutenant General Bülowius commander of the Mannteuffel division; Major General Von Vaerst, commander of the Fifth Armored Army; and Major General Baumsenge, commander of the Bizerte Air Forces." [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=336&dat=19430510&id=aNdjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=hn8DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6139,1068195&hl=en Six Nazi Generals Captured In North Africa, The Deseret News, 10 May 1943]</ref>, 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>

The British 56th ''Black Cat'' Division and 1st Free French Division took several of the Italian-held peaks in the reqion of Takrouna during the period 6 May 6 to 13  May, 1943, but with severe losses.

The British 56th ''Black Cat'' Division and 1st Free French Division took several of the Italian-held peaks in the reqion of Takrouna during the period 6 May 6 to 13  May, 1943, but with severe losses.