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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.
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February 26th, 1943 (FRIDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM:
ASW trawler HMS Lancer commissioned.
Minesweeper HMS Mutine commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)
GERMANY: US Flying Fortresses and Liberators bomb the German naval base at Wilhelmshaven.
TUNISIA: Units of the 10th and 21st Panzer Divisions under von Arnim attack British positions at Medjez el Bab. This prevents Rommel from concentrating quickly for an attack on the British 8th Army before the Mareth line.
U.S.A.: Destroyer USS Anthony commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)
ATLANTIC OCEAN: A man from U-760 was killed during an air attack in Wilhelmshaven [Obermaschinist Jakob Ippendorf]. (Dave Shirlaw)