Episode 577-Operation Flax & the Palm Sunday Massacre

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Posted On October 24, 2025

Before finishing off the Axis forces in North Eastern Tunisia, Gen. Alexander wants them starved of ammunition and petrol. Thus Operation Flax is created. The land/air bridge between Sicily and Tunisia is to be severed.

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