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Operations Vulcan and Strike
1943 final battles of Tunisian campaign / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Operation Vulcan (22 April – 6 May 1943)[1] and Operation Strike (6–12 May 1943)[2] were the final ground attacks by the Allied forces against the Italian and German forces in Tunis,[3] Cape Bon, and Bizerte, the last Axis toeholds in North Africa, during the Tunisian campaign of the Second World War.[1]
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Operations Vulcan and Strike | |||||||
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Part of the Tunisian campaign of the Second World War | |||||||
![]() British troops advance through Bizerte in the final offensive, 8 May 1943. | |||||||
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240,000 captured |
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