LEADER 04012nam 2200589 450 001 9910163215303321 005 20200108085033.0 010 $a1-78289-458-6 035 $a(CKB)3810000000097800 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4808810 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4808810 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11354580 035 $a(OCoLC)975221896 035 $a(OCoLC)645323108$z(OCoLC)664502497 035 $a(BIP)059099254 035 $a(EXLCZ)993810000000097800 100 $a20200108e20131946 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aTo Bizerte with the II Corps, 23 April - 13 May 1943 210 1$a[Place of publication not identified] :$cPickle Partners Publishing,$d2013. 210 4$d1946 215 $a1 online resource (74 pages) $cillustrations, maps 225 1 $aCMH pub ;$v100-6 225 1 $aAmerican forces in action series 300 $aReprint. Originally published: Washington, D.C. : Historical Division, War Department, 1943. (American forces in action series). 300 $aPaper version available for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Publishing Office. 330 8 $aWith 18 maps & 24 Illustrations.A DELEGATION OF GERMAN OFFICERS arrived at American Headquarters south of Ferryville at 0926 on 9 May 1943. Their mission was to surrender the remnants of a once proud unit of the Wehrmacht, the formidable Fifth Panzer Army...Marshal Giovanni Messe, commanding the Italian First Army, surrendered unconditionally to the British Eighth Army on 13 May. The long battle for North Africa was ended.Troops of the II Corps, U. S. A., who had entered the fight for Africa with the invasion on 8 Nov. 1942, played a prominent role in the decisive final battle which opened on 23 April...Within 2 weeks of the Nov. landings in Northwest Africa, British and American forces under General Dwight D. Eisenhower were driving from Algeria into western Tunisia in an effort to seize the great ports of Tunis and Bizerte. German reinforcements, rushed into Africa in the nick of time, stopped the advance just short of the Tunis plain. With operations now made difficult by the rainy winter season, the Allied Army fought bitter engagements in the mountains from Sedjenane Station to Medjez el Bab. To the south, American units in hard fighting stopped savage German drives through Kasserine Pass toward the Allied base at Tebessa and kept pressure on the long Axis communications between Field Marshal Rommel and Tunis.In late March, Rommel's forces were driven from the Mareth Line toward the north. Protecting his line of retreat, the enemy fought a stubborn delaying action against the Americans and the British in the El Guettar-Gafsa area. By 22 April the equivalent of 5 Italian and 9 German divisions were at bay for what they planned to be a protracted defense of Tunis and Bizerte. But the Axis was not allowed a breathing space to strengthen its defenses. The Allied forces, united under General Sir Harold R. Alexander as the Eighteenth Army Group, were already preparing the blow that was to destroy the enemy forces in a battle lasting 21 days. 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xCampaigns$zTunisia 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xRegimental histories$zUnited States 606 $aMilitary campaigns$2fast 606 $aRegimental histories$2fast 607 $aTunisia$2fast 607 $aUnited States$2fast 608 $aHistory.$2fast 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xCampaigns 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xRegimental histories 615 7$aMilitary campaigns. 615 7$aRegimental histories. 676 $a940.41273 700 $aAnon$0815482 712 02$aCenter of Military History, 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910163215303321 996 $aTo Bizerte with the II Corps, 23 April - 13 May 1943$93588240 997 $aUNINA