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The Run for Tunis
Part of the Tunisia Campaign of the Second World War
Date10 November – 25 December 1942
(1 month, 2 weeks and 1 day)
Location
Tunisia
34°N 09°E / 34°N 9°E / 34; 9
Result Axis victory
Belligerents
  • Run for Tunis United Kingdom
  • Run for Tunis United States
  • Run for Tunis Free France
  • Run for Tunis Germany
  • Run for Tunis Italy
Commanders and leaders
  • United Kingdom Kenneth Anderson
  • United Kingdom Vyvyan Evelegh
  • United States Lloyd Fredendall
Nazi Germany Walther Nehring
Fascist Italy Vittorio Sogno

The Run for Tunis was part of the Tunisia Campaign which took place during November and December 1942 during the Second World War. Once French opposition to the Allied Operation Torch landings had ceased in mid-November, the Allies made a rapid advance by a division-sized force east from Algeria, to capture Tunis and forestall an Axis build up in Tunisia and narrowly failed.[1] Some Allied troops were fewer than 20 miles (32 km) short of Tunis by late November but the defenders counter-attacked and pushed them back nearly 20 miles (32 km), to positions which had stabilised by the end of the year.

  1. ^ Taylor, Alan. "World War II: The North African Campaign". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2017-05-25.

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