CLOSE FIGHTING
STRUGGLE FOR MANSOUR POSITION
LONDON, February 7.
"Why don't you come nearer?" was the taunt British paratroops flung at German attackers before they retired from Jebel Mansour. The paratroopers' ammunition was exhausted and they resorted to hand-grenades before being forced back step by step.
Guards officers told the "Daily Mail" correspondent on the Tunisian front: "We killed a devil of a lot of Germans. The ground was shocking for attack. We had to climb the mountains with hands and knees. The Germans, who had taken the positions over from the-Italians, had dug themselves in well. There were machinegun posts at'ten yards' range. There was a lot of close "fighting. We jumped into German slit trenches and used our bayonets."
British Guardsmen also retired from Alligal Hill nearby, which they nicknamed "The Alligator."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 33, 9 February 1943, Page 5
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