NEAR SBEITLA
FIGHTING CONTINUES
(Rec. 11.45 a.m.) RUGBY February 17. Allied headquarters in North Africa states that opposing enemy forces were engaged throughout the day on the southern Tunisian front. At the end of the day fighting was still in progress in the outskirts of Sbeitla. On Monday and Tuesday nights the roads behind the enemy lines were bombed. Light bombers attacked the enemy gun positions and vehicles. Fighters made many attacks on enemy ground targets. One of our aircraft is missing. Near Brindisi a British submarine torpedoed and sank a medium-sized supply ship. Another small supply ship was also attacked, but took refuge inshore. The submarine followed and scored a hit with a torpedo, after which the ship was beached with its back broken. Another large east-bound supply ship which was unescorted was hit by two torpedoes and sunk. Another submarine bombarded a train in the railway station at San Ambregio, on the northern coast of Sicily, and scored many hits. The Netherlands Admiralty reports that a Dutch submarine, operating with the British forces in the Mediterranean, torpedoed and sank an Italian submarine. —8.0. W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 41, 18 February 1943, Page 5
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