Operations Vulcan and Strike
| Operations Vulcan and Strike | |||||||
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| Part of the Tunisian campaign of the Second World War | |||||||
British troops advance through Bizerte in the final offensive, 8 May 1943. | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
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United Kingdom United States |
Italy Germany | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Harold Alexander Kenneth Anderson Brian Horrocks Arthur Coningham Omar Bradley |
Giovanni Messe Hans-Jürgen von Arnim Gustav von Vaerst | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 240,000 captured | |||||||
Operation Vulcan (22 April – 6 May 1943) and Operation Strike (6–12 May 1943) were the final ground attacks by the Allied forces against the Italian and German forces in Tunis, Cape Bon, and Bizerte, the last Axis bridgeheads in North Africa, during the Tunisian campaign of the Second World War.