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    The Battle of the Mareth Line or the Battle of Mareth was an attack in the Second World War by the British Eighth Army (led by General Bernard Montgomery)...
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    The Mareth Line was a system of fortifications built by France in southern Tunisia in the late 1930s. The line was intended to protect Tunisia against...
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    Battle of El Guettar, 16 lost in Operation Oxhead (Operation Ochsenkopf), at least 51 lost in the Battle of the Mareth Line, 32 lost in the Battle of...
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    the Axis forces began a withdrawal northwards towards the Mareth Line, the Eighth Army pursuit being slowed by rain. The Battle of Medenine was the last...
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  • officers (Berger and Keach). The film climaxes in a recreation of the Battle of the Mareth Line in Tunisia. During the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Wehrmacht...
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    bunkered line to resist Montgomery's VIIIth army advance. The battle of the Mareth Line ensued. The Museum is built on a hill overlooking the Wadi Zigzaou...
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  • 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...
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    1943 Battle of Medenine: March 1943 Battle of the Mareth Line: March 1943 Battle of El Guettar: March–April 1943 Operation Flax: April 1943 Battle of Longstop...
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    commander of the British Eighth Army: "The battle of Rimini was one of the hardest battles of Eighth Army. The fighting was comparable to El Alamein, Mareth, and...
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    supply to Tunis with the goal of blocking the southern approach to Tunisia from Tripoli at Gabès. The Mareth Line, which the French had built to protect...
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  • Derek Anthony Seagrim (category British World War II recipients of the Victoria Cross)
    colonel in the 7th Battalion, The Green Howards (Alexandra Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment). On 20/21 March 1943 at the Mareth Line, Tunisia...
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    concentration of German armour in North Africa was successfully repulsed. At the Mareth Line, 20 to 27 March, when Montgomery encountered fiercer frontal opposition...
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  • the retreat to El Alamein and subsequent actions, June to November 1942. El Hamma. For operations at El Hamma in support of the Battle of the Mareth Line...
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    Eighth Army (United Kingdom) (category Field armies of the United Kingdom)
    engaged in the Battle of the Mareth Line on the Tunisian border in February 1943, where it then came under the control of 18th Army Group. The army outflanked...
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    Divisional Cavalry Regiment (New Zealand) (category Cavalry regiments of New Zealand)
    at the Battle of El Agheila. In January 1943 it was based at Castel Benito, and participated in the Battle of the Mareth Line in March. After the German...
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  • Ground" (Toujane, Tunisia - March 11, 1943) and the later Battle of the Mareth Line. Scenes from the film La folle de Toujane (1974, by René Vautier)...
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    II, before the surrender of Italy and Germany. Following the Battle of the Mareth Line (16-31 March 1943), Axis forces were driven back into Tunisia...
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  • 19th Flak Division (category German occupation of Greece during World War II)
    Battle of the Mareth Line.: 60  Later, the division accompanied the northwards retreat of Axis forces through Tunisia, including at the Wadi Akarit position...
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    tactical victory—turned from the battle to return to his eastward-facing defenses at the Mareth Line when he heard of the approach of Bernard Montgomery′s British...
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    temporary defensive success at the Battle of the Mareth Line. After shattering the Axis defence on the Mareth Line, the Allies squeezed Axis forces into...
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    took part in the Battle of Medenine, followed by the Battle of the Mareth Line in March. In late April, towards the end of the campaign, the 7th Armoured...
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    continued to withdraw to the Mareth Line, the French southern defensive position in Tunisia. Rommel was by this time in contact with the Fifth Panzer Army,...
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    with the survivors of the 185th Infantry Division "Folgore". The division then fought in the Battle of Medenine, the Battle of the Mareth Line, and the Battle...
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    Moana-Nui-a-Kiwa Ngarimu (category New Zealand World War II recipients of the Victoria Cross)
    1941. Ngarimu served through the battles of Greece and Crete after which he participated with the battalion during the North African Campaign. Commissioned...
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  • Soviet troops, ending the month-long Third Battle of Kharkiv. March 16 – WWII: Battle of the Mareth Line: Allied forces of the British 8th Army under...
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    Army at the Battle of Medenine and the Battle of the Mareth Line which fell after Rommel's return to Germany. In the central west, north of Medjez el...
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  • Alberto Mannerini (category Recipients of the Silver Medal of Military Valor)
    fought under his command during the Tunisian campaign, in the battle of the Mareth Line and in further clashes with the Long Range Desert Group. He was...
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  • case The Greatest Battle (Italian: Il grande attacco) (1978) – Italian-West German-Yugoslav action war film recreating the Battle of the Mareth Line in...
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    Crusader tank (category Cruiser tanks of the United Kingdom)
    were the Battle of the Mareth Line and the Battle of Wadi Akarit. The North Africa campaign finished shortly afterwards. After the completion of the North...
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  • 22nd Guards Brigade (category Infantry brigades of the British Army in World War II)
    which was nearing its end, was during the Battle of the Mareth Line in March. The battle, the first for the inexperienced 6th Grenadiers, was disastrous...
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