At El Alamein, at Bengasi, at Tripoli, at the Mareth Line and finally at Bizerte and Tunis, the battle for the southern shore of the Mediterranean had been won by the Allies. Now it was time to fight for the islands of that sea and for its northern shores.
Ready In the West. Said a German military commentator, Captain Ludwig Sertorius: "The huge British and American army reserves massed in Algeria and Morocco are enough to form not one but several armies. . . . The Allied high command . . . is planning a. landing maneuver on a large scale."
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