[Homer_J_Simpson]

Rommel Retreats (Middleton) – 2-3
Mark VI Tanks Met by Brooklyn Scorn – 3
‘Clean-Cut Repulse’ in Tunisia Dealt to Foe, Stimson Asserts (Hurd) – 4
A Gain in Caucasus (Parker) – 4-6
War News Summarized – 5
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 7-8

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/feb1943/f26feb43.htm

German Attacks in Tunisia Fail
Friday, February 26, 1943 www.onwar.com

Allied artillery defends against the German attacks [photo at link]

In Tunisia... Elements of 10th and 21st Panzer Divisions (parts of 5th Panzer Army commanded by von Arnim) attack British positions at Medjez el Bab. No progress is made. Rommel intends to concentrate these and other forces for an attack on the British 8th Army before the Mareth Line. Montgomery’s forward units (two divisions) are vulnerable because of a lack of logistical support at the front. They are in their present positions as a diversionary move carried out as part of the response to the earlier fighting at the Kasserine Pass.