EL HAMMA THRUST
TREMENDOUS AIR ONSLAUGHT ENEMY FORCED TO RETREAT. ALLIED TROOPS ADVANCING EVERYWHERE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, March 29. It is learned that on Rommel's inland flank, where the Eighth Army were last reported to be attacking in the outskirts of El Hamma, the Western Desert Air Force on Friday made the heaviest and most concentrated attack that has ever been delivered in combination with army operations. In two and a half hours in the afternoon our planes attacked ten times, and before the onslaughts were ended the enemy was in retreat. The planes then concentrated over the road leading from El Hamma, which was jammed with Axis transport, and destroyed about 100 vehicles and damaged considerably more. “Allied troops are advancing everywhere according to the plans of Generals Montgomery and Eisenhower,” said the Algiers radio yesterday. “They are the masters on land and in the air. The Eighth Army is now advancing into the suburbs of El Hamma; it.has also advanced south-east of the Mareth Line near the Wadi Zigzau, to within nine miles of the sea, and the Germans and Italians are being methodically pushed: back to the sea.” A French communique says: “Our
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 March 1943, Page 3
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