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The last Axis force to surrender in North Africa was the 1st Italian Army of General Messe. [58] This huge loss of experienced troops greatly reduced the military capacity of the Axis powers, although some Axis troops escaped Tunisia. This defeat in Africa led to all Italian colonies in Africa being captured. [citation needed]
The Axis troops fell back to defensible positions north and west of Enfidaville, 25 miles (40 km) south of Cape Bon. The mountains descend to the sea, with a narrow passage to Hammamet . The area was held until the Axis surrender in North Africa and Eighth Army units were moved towards Medjez el Bab opposite Tunis, for the final operations of ...
The Bloody Road to Tunis: Destruction of the Axis Forces in North Africa, November 1942 – May 1943. Greenhill Books. ISBN 9781853674457. Schreiber, Gerhard (2017). "The End of the North African Campaign and the War in Italy, 1943 to 1945". Germany and the Second World War. Vol.
The battle was the first major engagement between U.S. and Axis forces in Africa. The initial handful of American battalions suffered many casualties and were successively pushed back over 50 miles (80 km) from their original positions west of Faïd Pass, until they met an advancing brigade of the U.S. 1st Armored Division. [ 7 ]
4 February: Axis forces in Libya retreat to Tunisian border south of the Mareth Line; 14 February: Axis advance from Faïd to launch Battle of Sidi Bou Zid and enter Sbeitla two days later; 19 February: Battle of Kasserine Pass launched by Axis forces; 6 March: Axis launch Operation Capri against Eighth Army at Medenine but lose 55 tanks.
The II US Corps (Major-General Omar Bradley) surrounded the last defenders at Enfidaville, ending the Axis effort in North Africa. The German commander, General Hans-Jürgen von Arnim, surrendered on 12 May. [7] At the opposite Enfidaville, the remaining 80,000 troops of the 1st Army was still holding the Allied forces.
Rommel's North Africa Campaign: September 1940 – November 1942. Conshohocken, PA: Combined Books. ISBN 0-58519-391-6. Harper, Glyn (2017). The Battle for North Africa: El Alamein and the Turning Point for World War II. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-03142-6. Archived from the original on 3 September 2024
The North African campaign of World War II, sometimes called the "Desert War", includes the campaigns in Egypt and Libya (often referred to as the Western Desert campaign or the "Egypt–Libya Campaign") and those campaigns in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia (usually referred to as the Tunisian campaign.