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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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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Tunisian campaign (section Battle of the Mareth Line)
Medenine, only a few kilometres from the Mareth Line, he should call off the attack and withdraw to support the Mareth defences, hoping that the Kasserine...
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Battle of Medenine (section Mareth Line)
operation was intended to delay an attack by the British Eighth Army on the Mareth Line. The British had been forewarned by Ultra decrypts of German wireless...
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Mareth museum is a military museum, in Mareth. Located between Gabes and Medenine, the Mareth line museum deals with the Second World War history. In March...
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Operation Pugilist, the attack against the Mareth Line was planned for the night of 19–20 March 1943. The Mareth Line was made up of a series of fortified positions...
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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 8th Army...
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during its advance into Tunisia, and participated in the attack on the Mareth Line. L Force was then transformed into the 2e Division Blindée, although...
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forming Armoured Regimental groups. At the start of operations at the Mareth Line, the brigade was formed as follows: On 14 March 1943, the brigade passed...
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themselves in at the Mareth Line, Lee was almost killed when the squadron's airfield was bombed. After breaking through the Mareth Line, the squadron made...
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stopped its advance at the Mareth Line in Tunisia in late February 1943. On 19 March, XXX Corps launched an attack on the Mareth Line as part of Operation Pugilist...
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switching his line of supply to Tunis with the goal of blocking the southern approach to Tunisia from Tripoli at Gabès. The Mareth Line, which the French...
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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...
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the Eighth Army was facing the Italian-German Panzer Army near the Mareth Line and came under command of Alexander's 18th Army Group for the concluding...
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Rommel retreats farther into Tunisia, establishing his troops at the Mareth Line. Within two days, Allied troops move into Tunisia for the first time...
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List of orders of battle for the 4th Armoured Brigade during the Second World War (section Mareth Line 16–23 March 1943)
This is an order of battle of the British 4th Armoured Brigade during the Second World War. Many units either served with or were briefly attached to the...
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The German forces then withdrew behind the Mareth Line. Eighth Army's operation against the Mareth Line beginning on the night of 20/21 March included...
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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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Montgomery launched his major attack, Operation Pugilist, against the Mareth Line in the night of 19 March 1943 – 20 March 1943. The 69th Infantry Brigade...
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Military history of the United Kingdom during World War II (section The Winter Line, Anzio and the Battle of Monte Cassino)
who had caught up with the Panzerarmee Afrika at last at the Mareth Line. The Mareth Line was a series of old French border defences against Italian forces...
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the Mareth Line on the Tunisian border in February 1943, where it then came under the control of 18th Army Group. The army outflanked the Mareth defences...
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the 18th Army Group; together with the Americans, they breached the Mareth Line. By May 1943, Some 50,000 Axis soldiers surrendered, ending the North...
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planned to defend the Gabes Gap in Tunisia east of the French pre-war Mareth line by holding the port of Buerat, while Army Group Africa (Generaloberst...
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Battle of the Mareth Line: Allied forces of the British 8th Army under General Bernard Montgomery launch an offensive against the Mareth Line held by the...
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against the advancing British and allied forces, and was defeated at the Mareth Line. The lack of resources available to the general Messe could not prevent...
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at Al Mukaram and Wadi Tamet, as well as at Shott al Jerid behind the Mareth Line. The aim was to establish weather stations to provide local and meteorological...
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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 a pocket...
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(Berger and Keach). The film climaxes in a recreation of the Battle of the Mareth Line in Tunisia. During the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Wehrmacht officer Manfred...
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inferior German forces. Advancing on Gabès, Patton's corps pressured the Mareth Line. During this time, he reported to British General Sir Harold Alexander...
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and German forces manned the Mareth Line, a series of fortifications built by the French in the 1930s. The Mareth Line constituted one of two fronts...
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