CAIRO--Allied troops advanced slowly but steadily on the Egyptian battlefront today, picking their way through deep mine and barbed wire defenses and mopping up isolated Axis units at bayonet point, while protecting Allied fliers claimed 21 more Axis planes shot down, two supply ships sunk and two desert truck caravans scattered.
The Allied advance already had carried as much as four and a half miles into the north, central and south sectors of the El Alamein line, and mop-up detachments were fast obliterating the enemy pockets of resistance left behind by the advance guard.
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