DESTRUCTION OF ENEMY
ALLIED COMMANDER’S MESSAGE (Rec. 10 p.m.) RUGBY, Mar. 13. General Eisenhower, in an order of the day to the armies under his control, said: “ In the last three weeks the enemy have been attacking us in Tunisia in the centre, north, and south. Some of the fighting has been bitter, and we have suffered losses, bet the enemy has been once frustrated and twice defeated in attempts to break the Allied ring of encirclement. Probably, further and desperate efforts will be made, but I know the troops of our field armies will, with the continued and effective support of the naval and air forces, inexorably push him back to the sea and destroy him. ‘‘l take this opportunity of expressing my pride in the inclusion of the Eighth Army and the Western Desert Air Force in the Allied forces in North Africa which I command.” he concluded. “These forces will continue to typify the unified purpose of the British. French, and Americans to force an unconditional Axis surrender.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25174, 15 March 1943, Page 3
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