The Axis forces, consisting of the 1st Italian Army and most of the German Africa Corps, officially surrendered on 13 May 1943 in Tunisia when some 230,000 were taken prisoner.
General Alexander declared, 'We are masters of the North African shore' and then the Allied 18th Army Group was disbanded on 15 May 1943.
THE BRITISH ARMY IN TUNISIA 1943© IWM (NA 2514)
'I turned over one poor chap on a rocky, bloody crag on Tanngoucha. He was facing the right way, the last round of a clip in the breech and three dead Germans in front of him. His name was Duff. After all is over - and the remainder of the Empire is understandably irritated with Ireland - I hope these countless Duffs, from both the North and the South, and in all three services, will be remembered.
(Brigadier Nelson Russell, Commander 38 (Irish) Brigade, 1942-44)
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