SPLENDID SUPPORT
GIVEN BY AIR FORCE GENERAL MONTGOMERY’S APPRECIATION. GRATITUDE OF NEW ZEALAND TROOPS. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, March 28. The Allied air forces are keeping up their concentrated pounding in Tunisia. It is announced from Cairo that five big fires were started in the Gabes area on Friday night among oil tanks and railway sidings. Bombers also damaged gun positions near Gabes, and vehicles on the roads north and south of the town. General Montgomery, expressing ap-, preciation of the air forces’s work, said “Such intimate and close _ support has never previously been achieved. It has been an inspiration to all the troops.” The Algiers correspondent of the “Daily Mail” states that New Zealand troops said they hdd never had such close air co-operation.
northern patrols have reached the slopes of the eastern heights over Ousseltia Plain without a serious enemy reaction. Our Camel Corps occupied two places commanding the Kebili area.”
To the north, in the Fondouk area, 35 miles north-east of Sbeitla, the Americans are now said to hold positions which dominate the coastal plain.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 March 1943, Page 3
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