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Browning, Glacier County, Montana
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Ongoing WWII battles in Tunisia: Allied forces under Eisenhower anchor at Medjez-el-Bab amid mud; air strikes on Axis bases; Giraud's French troops take Pichon to block Rommel-Nehring junction. Withdrawal from advanced hill reported.
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Although tropical sunshine had dried the surface of Tunisia's boggy roads. the gumbo mud continued to hamper free movement of either the Allied or Axis forces. Principal strategic key was the town of Medjez-el-Bab, where General Dwight Eisenhower's army was endeavoring to anchor its positions for the coming all-out offensive against strongly held Tunis and Bizerte. That these positions could not be won without fierce struggles was indicated by reports that the Allied forces had withdrawn from an advanced hill six miles northeast of Medjez-el-Bab.
Air offensives continued against Axis bases in Tunisia and Axis supply lines from Sicily and Italy with Flying Fortresses battering Sousse, Tunis and Bizerte.
French forces under General Giraud had carried out aggressive action along the "waist" of Tunisia, taking the town of Pichon and advancing in a drive to prevent the effective junction of Marshal Rommel's Libyan forces with those of General Walther Nehring in Tunisia.
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Tunisia
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allied forces withdrew from an advanced hill six miles northeast of medjez-el-bab; french forces took the town of pichon and advanced to prevent junction of axis forces
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Tropical sunshine dried surface roads but gumbo mud hampered movement of Allied and Axis forces. Key position at Medjez-el-Bab where Eisenhower's army anchored for offensive against Tunis and Bizerte. Air offensives by Flying Fortresses against Axis bases in Sousse, Tunis, Bizerte, and supply lines from Sicily and Italy. French forces under Giraud took Pichon and advanced along Tunisia's waist to block Rommel's Libyan forces from joining Nehring's in Tunisia.