The end began in Tunisia last week. All along the line Allied arms pressed forward.
Action started at the southeast end of the line and moved along its length, like the stress of a whiplash. The veteran Eighth moved first, against a focus of mean terrain at Takrouna (see col. 2), then settled down to a hill-by-hill struggle. Then the First Army moved forward gradually onto hills on the edge of the plain of Tunis and then onto the plain itself (see p. 26). Later still, units of the U.S. II Corps suddenly showed up at the northern flank, after a...
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