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sector near Zuara. This means that our troops are now 60 miles west of Tripoli, and a little more than 3Q miles from the Tunisian frontier. Bad weather is restricting air operations of the Eighth Army. THE NAVY ASHORE. : A correspondent who has been with the Eighth Army all the way from El Alameih states that the Royal Navy moved along with the Army, not only at sea, but actually with the troops on land. Advance parties of naval officers and men, wearing ordinary battledress, went forward with the ground forces investigating ports and landing facilities as we captured them, and Started getting ready for the supplies doming up by sea. The Royal Navy and the merchant service were hard at work all the time making Tobruk, Benghazi, and Tripoli and other places ready for us. The correspondent pays a tribute to the great work of our seamen.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 25, 30 January 1943, Page 7
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