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Battle for Tunisia Drives Forward as Axis Forces Rearm
Allied troops push deeper into the French protectorate of Tunisia while Axis reinforcements, numbering around ten thousand, try to hold Bizerte and Tunis. Rommel’s forces retreat toward El Agheia as Allied commanders vow rapid advance and a push to disrupt Axis lines, with Italians and Germans regrouping despite Vichy resistance and new supply efforts. The narrative recalls World War I’s Meuse-Argonne offensives as a historic parallel.
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James M. Long
Associated Press
Tunisia
French Protectorate
Bizerte
Tunis
United States
Doughboys
Meuse
Argonne Forest
Amerns
Fem Bay Anderson
Romel
Eighth Army
Bent
Marshal Homme
Bengasi
el Agere
el Ala F
Red Army
Volkhov
Omen
Leningrad
Bor- Tunis
Izerte
Morocco
Mediterranean
Foulon