TUNISIAN RESISTANCE COLLAPSING; 50,000 AND 4 GENERALS CAPTURED (5/10/43)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 5/10/43 | Frank L. Kluckhohn, Drew Middleton, Ralph Parker

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Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941: Status of Forces and Allied Theater Boundaries, 2 July 1942
India-Burma, 1942: Allied Lines of Communication, 1942-1943

Special Guest Map – The Conquest of Tunis: May 6-12, 1943 (from The Hinge of Fate, by Winston Churchill)

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The West Point Military History Series, Thomas E. Griess, Editor, The Second World War: Europe and the Mediterranean

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The bottom part of this excerpt is continued from May 8.

Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate

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Navy Joins Battle (Kluckhohn) – 2-3
Raid Sets Record – 3
Tunis, Delivered from Evil, Rises to Allied Bugles’ Blare (Middleton) – 4-5
Soviet Air Force Opens New Drive – 5
War News Summarized – 5
Russia Recovers in Vyasma’s Ruins (Parker) – 6
All-Slav Meeting Felicitates Allies – 6-7
British Give Up Outpost in Burma; Retreat Into India is Expected – 7
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 8-10
Untitled photo of Eisenhower, Bradley – 10

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/may1943/f10may43.htm

Organized Axis resistance in Tunisia ends
Monday, May 10, 1943 www.onwar.com

Axis POWs in Turnisian camp [photo at link].

In Tunisia... The last organized Axis resistance is eliminated. Large scale surrenders, of Axis troops, begin.

From Berlin... Hitler approves Operation Citadel, the attack on the Kursk salient, despite expressing misgivings and news of Soviet defensive preparations.

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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/frame.htm

May 10th, 1943 (MONDAY)

UNITED KINGDOM: Sloop HMS Crane commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)

U.S.S.R.: Operation Citadel is approved by Hitler. This attack at Kursk should begin in June.

MEDITERRANEAN SEA: U-380 rescued five German soldiers escaping from Tunisia in a small boat. She brought them to La Spezia May 16. (Dave Shirlaw)

NORTH AFRICA: Wholesale surrenders begin as the last Axis resistance ends in Tunisia.

The British 6th Armoured Division ends Axis chances of escape by cutting off the Cape Bon peninsula.

CANADA:
Ville-class steel tugs HMCS Lawrenceville, Adamsville, Beamsville, Marysville, Auburnville, Parksville, Otterville, Radville and Hodgeville ordered.

Frigate HMCS Toronto (ex-Giffard) laid down Lauzon, Province of Quebec.

HMC ML 088 commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)

U.S.A.: Destroyer escort USS Ricketts launched.
Destroyer USS Bush commissioned.

Destroyer escort USS Carlson commissioned.

Submarine USS Cisco commissioned.
Destroyer escort USS Maloy laid down.

Destroyer USS Mertz laid down.

Aircraft carrier USS Randolph laid down.

Minesweeper USS Rebel laid down.

(Dave Shirlaw)

ATLANTIC OCEAN: U-403 had a gunnery duel with the Dutch ship Dexterous. (Dave Shirlaw)

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U-380 rescued five German soldiers escaping from Tunisia in a small boat. She brought them to La Spezia May 16.

Dumba##es. I wonder if any of them survived the war?