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tunisia tours, escorted tunisia tours, tunisia tours, tunisia tours War Cemetery Tours Tunisia saw fierce fighting during the Allied invasion of North Africa (operation Torch) and the subsequent retreat of the Axis forces. The Battle of the Enfidha ville, the Battle of Mareth, the drive towards Tunis in an effort to cut off the German lines, so many episodes of the often bloody operations conducted in the Tunisian theatre by General Eisenhower and Feldmarschall Rommel. Day 1: Arrival / Tunis Meet with our guide at the Tunis Carthage Airport and transfer to your hotel. Day 2: Tunis / Carthage / Mejez El Bab Tunis Carthage & American War cemetery Visit of battlefields and memorials at Messicault, Mejez El Bab and Oued Zarga. The US War cemetery at Carthage is where some 2,800 American soldiers are laid to rest. These soldiers gave their lives throughout the dark years of 1942-1943 while fighting from the west to push the Axis forces back out of North Africa, in a common effort with Commonwealth and Free French forces from the east. Oued Zarga is a cemetery containing 247 Commonwealth war burials from World War II. We then, visit Massicault war Cemetery near Borj El Amri, where 1,576 Commonwealth graves of the Second World War can be seen, 130 of them unidentified. Day 3: Tunis / Enfidha / Sfax Transfer to Enfidha battelfield and war cemetery (1,551 burials) – We continue to Sfax and visit of the city’s War cemetery. Most of those buried in Sfax War Cemetery died in attacks on successive Axis positions at Medenine, the Marith Line and Oued Akarit, in March and April 1943. The cemetery contains 1,253 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 52 of them unidentified. Day 4: Sfax / Mareth / Gabes Drive to Oued Akarit, Mareth line battlefield, Mareth war museum. The Mareth Line was built by the French in the 1930’s to protect Tunisia from an Italian invasion from Libya. It was based on the design used to build the infamous Maginot Line in France. In 1942, the German Afrikakorps was forced to leave Libya under growing pressure from the British forces and a major battle took place for the control of this line of fortifications. The heavy death toll it took over both Allied and Axis forces make this place a must-see for those interested in WWII. Drive back north and overnight at Gabes. Day 5: Medenine / Tunis Drive to Medenine and visit Medenine, another major battlefield of the North African theater of operations. After visiting this site, we return to Tunis. Day 6: Tunis Morning check-out of the hotel and transfer to the airport for your return flight.