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U. S. Tunisian Forces Score Six Mile Gain

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NORTH AFRICA--American forces have smashed ahead six miles in southern Tunisia, developing a direct threat to the now Nazi coastal defense line while France-British troops have broken through to the north coast and captured Cap Serrat, it was revealed tonight.

Driving over rocky cliffs southeast of E1 Guettar under heavy fire from hidden German 88-millimeter cannon, the American feet soldiers were advancing due cast toward Field Marshall Erwin Rommel's positions on the Wadi Akarit only 38 miles beyond;

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