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@Tunisia_1943 Tell us about Manahi please. And the real reason he was not awarded a VC for all his valor in Takrouna battle.

On This Day 1943: at first light, at Takrouna, the scale of the NZ Division's disaster was clear - all objectives still in enemy hands, hundreds dead, every battalion in disorder, one battalion withdrew without permission, Brigadier Kippenberger found in tears. #TunisianCampaign

@Tunisia_1943 @CWGC We were there a couple of hours ago

It's #StainedGlassSunday - whatever glass they had at Oued Zarga church it's now gone, destroyed and never repaired after the battles in the area in 1942 and 43. Below the Church ruin stands the tiny but beautiful @CWGC cemetery. #TunisianCampaign

@Tunisia_1943 Old photo or new one taken these days?

#TipOfTheDay: study the battle deeply, then walk the ground, then study some more, then walk the ground again, this time with clarity, confidence and competence. That's what I'm doing here walking the ground at Mareth with Tunisian Army, learning off each other #TunisianCampaign

@karim2k @Tunisia_1943

Noticed this plaque earlier this morning while touring the North Africa American Cemetery & Memorial. Now wondering what Ploesti (Romania) is doing here? The Ploesti raid by the Americans in 1943 is well documented. Anyone knows if some dead soldiers were brought to RIP here?

@Tunisia_1943 Coming from Fredendall in particular, that statement is all the more scarier! Or as the Americans themselves love to say: those who cannot do, they teach.

"It is my impression that preparatory battle training conducted in the United States and in this theater [Tunisia] has failed in some respects..." Maj Gen Fredendall 1943. #WednesdayWisdom #TunisianCampaign

@Tunisia_1943 @WW2TV I beg to differ.

"...the US was actually the BEST prepared of all combatants in WWII..." a controversial view from Lt Col (R) Bud Bowie - looking forward to his presentation tonight on @WW2TV!

OTD 1943: Kesselring flew from Rome to meet with Rommel at his CP under this railway bridge in Kasserine - it was obvious to Rommel that his gamble had failed and it was time for him to go back to face Montgomery on the coast near Mareth. von Arnim was gleeful. #TunisianCampaign

OTD 1943: Rommel's thrust into Kasserine Pass is failing. The furthest Axis troops, the Italians, could not get past Dj Hamra which 'filled' the Pass. His alternatives were the thrusts towards Sbiba and Thala but they too were in trouble. It's snowing. #TunisianCampaign

@karim2k @Tunisia_1943 @BradtTunisia @Fhtagn @ww2tunisia @Tunisia_1943

@Tunisia_1943 @BradtTunisia @Fhtagn There are 7 Muslim/Arab soldiers buried within the German WWII cemetery in Borj Cedria, but not much is known about their origins. Do you have any insight or information about their potential story? cc @SlimMenzly @ww2tunisia

@menavisualss @Tunisia_1943 Most accounts confirm German soldiers paid for what they “bought” unlike other troops.

German soldiers buying fuits from a street vendor in Tunisia c. 1943 🇹🇳

@Tunisia_1943 @karim2k

Then and Now - the Allied memorial at Takrouna - easily missed as it is in a garden cafe, surrounded by bushes, overlooked by the later Italian memorial. The video view has Dj Bir behind, the photograph shows Dj Takrouna as it was in the 1950s. FYI @SlimMenzly #TunisianCampaign

@Tunisia_1943 Same here. And Cairo is a great and fun city to explore too.

Wish I was at the Cairo book fair this week, they have had 3.5million visitors so far. scenenow.com/Buzz/Cairo-Boo…

@Tunisia_1943 @MadeleineMilano @WW2TV @karim2k

Life Magazine photographer Eliot Elisofon may be the most celebrated photographer in 1942/43 Tunisia but he did not take the greatest photograph IMHO, that was this one by Captain Geoffrey Keating @MadeleineMilano @WW2TV ©IWM Looking forward to tonight's talk! #TunisianCampaign

@Tunisia_1943 @YockelsonMitch @Mother_of_Tanks Alan Moorhead in his book “March to Tunis” mentioned the Baroness who used to live in this castle and how the Italians drunk all the wine in the cellar and roasted the peacocks in the process 😂

Great listening to @YockelsonMitch on the @Mother_of_Tanks podcast. It mentioned Ike and his 'driver' Kay Summersby. This is where Ike played (!) with Kay in Tunis - the wonderful Ennejma Ezzahra Palace. The Bridge table and room have been faithfully restored to its 1943 standard

@Tunisia_1943 Haane Manahi?

WW2 military historians are more credible and valuable when they are honest. Not getting off on nostalgia-porn or military violence or 'taking' sides. Their job is to unravel real lives, real triumphs and real mistakes. #TunisianCampaign

@Tunisia_1943 Takrouna

"What country, friends, is this?" #ShakespeareSunday #TunisianCampaign #twelfthnight

@Tunisia_1943 It seems it is a lost art. They don’t make them like they used to.

Why don't we see maps as good as this anymore? #MapMonday

@Tunisia_1943 Was he the same officer that got traded by the locals to the Germans for 11 pounds of tea?

"David Stirling...looks glorious, rather like a beachcomber or an Apache" Lt Gen Oliver Leese 1943. #TunisianCampaign

@Tunisia_1943 One of the few French who know a thing or two about the art of war

A wise man, a great advisor to Eisenhower in North Africa, almost unknown outside of France. Lt Gen Louis-Marie Koeltz, GOC French 19th Corps in Tunisia 1943. #WednesdayWisdom #TunisianCampaign