Battle of the Mareth Line information

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)...

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...

Kasserine reached the Mareth line on 25 February. Action then abated for a time and both sides studied the results of recent battles. Rommel remained convinced...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

Capri) with the largest concentration of German armour in North Africa was successfully repulsed. At the Mareth Line, 20 to 27 March, when Montgomery encountered...

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...

where he commanded the XXI Corps. For his part in the battles of the Mareth Line and Wadi Akarit he was awarded a Silver Medal of Military Valour. He...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

the rest of Panzer Army Africa. Falugi commanded the Division throughout the Tunisian campaign, participating in the battles of the Mareth Line, of Wadi...

were the Battle of the Mareth Line and the Battle of Wadi Akarit. The North Africa campaign finished shortly after. After the completion of the North...

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...

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...

defeated the Germans at the Battle of the Mareth Line and entered El Hamma. The completion of several deep bore holes to supply water to the Gabès cement...

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...