IN ALLIED TRAP
GERMAN PANZERS BRITISH THUNDERBOLT STRATEGY JUSTIFIED (British Official Wireless.) (11 a.m.) RUGBY, May 12. The speed with which the second British thunderbolt followed the first isolated the most general mass of the First Panzer Army from the other Axis forces; It is thought in London that only a small proportion reached what sanctuary the Cape Bon Peninsula offered.
The rapid course of events since the capture of Tunis is considered to have more than justified General Alexander’s decision to give the original thrust additional power and speed by transferring two Eighth Army divisions to the First Army front. Not only was the German armour pinned down, but these forces on reaching Tunis had so much strength and impetus still available that they were able to divide and each part carry out a further major operation. Part went north to complete the encirclement of the Fifth Panzer Army, while another equally formidable spearhead struck straight across the isthmus to the Gulf of Hammamet.
Thus the enemy was not only unable to withdraw the Fifth Panzer Army from the north, but was equally incapable of withdrawing the First Panzer Army from the EnfidavilleZaghouan position.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21093, 13 May 1943, Page 3
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