The Wisconsin State Journal
MADISON, TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 1943
Allies Drive Through Gabes
Mareth Line Broken,
Axis Forces Mauled,
Rommel Flees North
By VIRGIL PINKLEY
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa —OJ.R)— Tba
British Eighth army, paced by veteran New Zealand troops, has
seized the key Tunisian towns of Gabes and El Hamma and has
pushed Marshal Erwin Rommel's battered Airika korps still
farther north, despite stiff Axis reargard resistance.
The communique issued today by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's
headquarters said that a total of 8,000 prisoners had
been takea in the last 10 days. Allied fighters again tvere re-
relentlessly attacking enemy communication lines and American,
British, and French forces continued to edge forward in cen-
tral and northern Tunisia.
RAF Defies Weather
for Smash at Berlin
LONDON" —(U.P.)— British bombers in strong force Monday night
flew through some of the worst weather they had faced in many
weeks to-hammer home the second heavy raid on Berlin in 48 hours,
rekindling great fires which lighted up the skies over the German
capital, the air ministry announced today.
The Royal Air Force lost 21 bombers in the Berlin raid and 12
more in supplementary attacks on war targets in the Ruhr, which
apparently constituted one of the heaviest broadside operations ol
the war.
In addition to the murky clouds and icing conditions which impeded
the big four-engined bombers, they ran into strengthened German
defenses — night fighters, anti-aircraft fire, and clusters of
searchlights—which combined to exact, the heaviest toll on a raid
ing fleet in months!
apparently constituted one of the
heaviest broadside operations of
the war.
In addition to the murky clouds and icing conditions which impeded
the big four-engined bombers, they ran into strengthened German
defenses — night fighters, anti-aircraft fire, and clusters of
searchlights—which combined to exact, the heaviest toll raiding fleet in months.
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