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World Battlefronts: ACROSS WADI ZIGZAU

On the afternoon of March 22 the Germans counterattacked the Eighth Army’s positions in the Mareth Line and drove the British infantry back upon the Wadi Zigzau. In order to relieve the situation of ...
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Left Hook at Mareth

In March 1943 the Eighth Army's pursuit of the Afrika Korps had halted at the combined obstacles of Wadi Akarit and the refurbished Mareth Line.Monty met this situation by having 30 Corps maintain ...
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World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF AFRICA: In the Dust of the Khamsin

General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery had been thrown back at the northern end of the Mareth Line. In a 15-mile-wide gap between the Matmata Mountains and the seashore, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel had ...
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Mareth from the Wrong End

I have been in the Mareth and Wadi Akarit battles as an artillery Lt. in an Italian Battery of old (1906 model) 75/27 guns. On the Mareth line, my guns were placed on high mountains and I was in an ...
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Fact File : Battle of Mareth Line

Players: Allies: General Bernard Montgomery's 8th Army's 50th and 1st Armoured Divisions, New Zealand Corps. Axis: The Italian 1st Army, formerly known as the Panzer Army Africa. Outcome: The defeated ...
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Fact File : Battle of Mareth Line

Players: Allies: General Bernard Montgomery's 8th Army's 50th and 1st Armoured Divisions, New Zealand Corps. Axis: The Italian 1st Army, formerly known as the Panzer Army Africa. Outcome: The defeated ...