STRATEGY ALTERED
SKILFUL USE OF LUFTWAFFE
LONDON, January 21. The Germans' south-westward drive in Tunisia has altered the whole strategy of the battlefront, which is again fluctuating after having been fairly static for six weeks, says the "Daily Express" correspondent with the First Army. About 40 tanks and a regiment of shock troops form the backbone of the German thrust, with other units in support. The Germans have skilfully used the Luftwaffe, a force of bombers from Sicily being closely interlocked with dive-bombers and fighters operating from Tunisia. The dive-bombers have operated from the hard, sandy coastal plain, and the fighters shift their position daily, often taking off from beaches, racecourses, and dried-up valleys. Massively backed by the air and with a great weight of tanks and guns, including captured American seventy-fives, the thrust went through the French positions.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 19, 23 January 1943, Page 5
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