30 Mar 1943, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

Submitted by Admin on Fri, 03/01/2013 - 00:22

Cookhouse.

Plenty good news around if true. Repatriation jambed [jammed?] in London? Invasion fleet ready at home. Bizarts [?]captured, Germans evacuating via Gabes [?] & their barges etc being bombed. Smolensk by-passed by Russians. Indians giving Japs trouble locally.

Walk with Steve pm.

((G.))

Dull & rainy.

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Both north african cities are connected to the German retreat from this area in WWII. Gabès is a small town in central Tunisia at the mediterranian coast, about 400 km south of Tunis. Bizarts is most likely Bizerta,  its located 65 km north of Tunis.