EARLIER FIGHTING
PREPARATIONS FOR MAIN BATTLE SERIES OF BOLD NIGHT ATTACKS. PATH CLEARED THROUGH MINEFIELDS. LONDON, March 22. It can now be revealed that .a “secret battle” preceded the main assault against the Mareth Line. The “Daily Mail’s” correspondent with the Eighth Army says that this was a series of bold night attacks on March 16 when the enemy was expelled from his outposts. Strong bodies of infantry, accompanied by sappers, crept silently across no-man’s-land, which was several miles wide, under a bright moon. They cleared a path through a heavy minefield and attacked a very strongly held position, where they took many prisoners and inflicted heavy casualties. They took all the objectives in front of the northern sector of the Mareth Line, from the coast to the neighbourhood of the main road from Medenine to Mareth. In the extreme north a further attack on March 18 brought our positions to within two miles of the Mareth Line proper. Italian troops who held this sector fought stubbornly, but were eventually overwhelmed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 March 1943, Page 3
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