Newsmap. Monday, April 19, 1943 : week of April 9 to April 16, 188th week of the war, 70th week of U.S. participation Side: 1 of 2

                                
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1    TUNISMICA * The entire Axis position in Central Tu19!
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British Eighth Army, supported on the west and northwest
by American, French and British First Army units,
shoved Rommel's Afrika Korps into the mountainous
northeast corner of Tunisia where juncture was made with
the enemy forces under Gen. Von Arnim. In this corner
the heaviest fighting of the entire campaign was expected.
The Germans apparently were prepared to defend the
rough terrain along a line running in an irregular arc from
Enfidaville northwest to between Pont Du Fahs and Bou
Arada to east of Medjez-El-Bab and finally in a westward
curve toward the Cape Serrat area.
The enemy withdrawal northward across the relatively
level central plain followed by the hard-driving Eighth
Army was at points the most rapid movement of the entire
North African campaign. Operating under a blanket of
air supremacy the Allies occupied the main harbor of Sfax
only three days after breaking the Wadi El Akarit defenses
on April 7, 65 mTiles to the southwest. As the German
defenses crumpled there British and American units converged
from both sides on the enemy positions at Mezzouna
just east of Maknassy, already held by the Americans.
From Sfax the British Eighth Army drove almost due
north and on April 12 captured Sousse, the last big Axis
port below Tunis. This advance included a drive of 48
miles in 24 hours.
The day before, Kairouan, the principal Axis air base

in Central Tunisia, was taken by troops moving from south
and west as Eighth Army elements converged with American,
French and British First Army armor which started an
attack April 9 eastward on the Fondouk and Pichon areas
toward Kairouan.
Further Allied advances northward from Sousse, Kairouan
and northeast from Ousseltia pressed the enemy into
his hilly defense box bounded on the south by the ridges
rising west of Enfidaville.
In the northwest sector, meanwhile British First Army
units concentrated on clearing the area between Medjez-ElBab
and Sedjenane and moving towards Mateur. Axis
artillery stationed in the hilly country there had been able
to direct fire on the road between Beja and Medjez-El-Bab.
The Allied advance here appeared to be in three principal
thrusts. One went north from Medjez-El-Bab, another
was northeast from Beja and had reached a point less than
18 miles from Mateur. A third was directed eastward from
Sedjenane. North of this, French troops which last week
took Cape Serrat, maintained their pressure.
The Allied toll of Axis prisoners in the four weeks' fighting
rose to more than 30,000. In air combat since the Mareth
offensive began March 20 Allied planes have knocked out
459 planes compared with 152 Allied aircraft missing. In
addition some 150 or more German and Italian planes have
been destroyed on the ground during systematic pounding
of Axis air terminals.
As the enemy was further compressed into the northeast
corner he not only lost valuable airfields which the Allies

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gained but the target for Allied planes shrunk to a fraction
of the area it formerly covered. Airfields in Sicily, 90 miles
away, would be used now for enemy bomber bases while
those remaining in Tunisia would be used by fighters.
As in previous African fighting the enemy was making
excellent use of minefields which delayed the American advance
and thus granting valuable time for the withdrawal
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mans. These were being supplied to some extent by air
transport from Sicily and Sardinia which were carrying
quantities of gasoline in addition to other materiel.

9 1revQealed  that tehe 98-piane j'a,,p raid ona oura shippang

there last week cost us four vessels, including one destroyer
and a corvette. The enemy lost 39 of his planes while we

lost seven from which five of our pilots were saved,
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attacks in force within four days. The first was April 11
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probable losses of 30 planes including 22 bombers. Three
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