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The Tunisian campaign (also known as the battle of Tunisia) was a series of battles that took place in Tunisia during the North African campaign of the Second World War, between Axis and Allied forces from 17 November 1942 to 13 May 1943.
Tunisia 17 November 1942 to 13 May 1943. U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II. United States Army Center of Military History. ISBN 0-16-038106-1. CMH Pub 72-12. Archived from the original on 17 September 2017; Haycock, D.J. (2004). Eisenhower and the Art of Warfare: A Critical Appraisal. McFarland. ISBN 9780786418947.
Tunisian Victory is a 1944 Anglo-American propaganda film about the victories in the North Africa Campaign of World War II. The film follows both armies from the planning of Operation Torch and Operation Acrobat (the latter of which was canceled), to the liberation of Tunis.
The Battle of Wadi Akarit (Operation Scipio) was an Allied attack from 6 to 7 April 1943, to dislodge Axis forces from positions along the Wadi Akarit in Tunisia during the Tunisia Campaign of the Second World War. The Gabès Gap, north of the towns of Gabès and El Hamma, is a passage between the sea and impassable salt marshes.
The 9th Infantry Division was among the first U.S. combat units to engage in offensive ground operations during World War II. (The others were the 32nd and the 41st in the Pacific on New Guinea , Carlson's Raiders on Makin Island , the 1st Marine , and the Americal on Guadalcanal , and, alongside the 9th in North Africa , were the 1st Infantry ...
The earliest action for which a U.S. serviceman earned a World War II Medal of Honor was the attack on Pearl Harbor, for which 17 U.S. servicemen were awarded a Medal, although they did so "while engaged in military operations involving conflict with an opposing foreign force" rather than "enemy" since the United States was neutral during the ...
The 4th Tunisian Tirailleurs Regiment (French: 4 e Régiment de Tirailleurs Tunisiens, 4 e RTT) was an infantry regiment of the Army of Africa, part of the French Army.. Active between 1884 and 1956, the regiment was one of the most decorated of the French Army.
It is the only confirmed instance of one U.S. submarine firing at another during World War II. [ 192 ] 28 May – A PV-1 Ventura of U.S. Navy Bombing Squadron 148 (VB-148) damaged the submarine USS Permit (SS-178) with a depth charge in the Pacific Ocean in the vicinity of 06°45′N 151°52′E / 6.750°N 151.867°E / 6.750; 15