List of Illustrations

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	Frontispiece
On to Tunis	NZ Army (H. Paton)
	Following page 86
The left hook at El Agheila	F. T. Allan
A 25-pounder and its limber are winched up a rise	F. T. Allan
New Zealand Vickers guns in position near Wadi Matratin
General Freyberg confers with his O Group near Nofilia	J. C. White
Bypassing a demolished bridge on the Via Balbia near Sirte	NZ Army
Engineers search the roadside for mines	NZ Army
A sapper removes an S-mine from a landing field	NZ Army (H. Paton)
An enemy shell bursts among advancing transport to the south of Buerat	J. C. White
The Division, in desert formation, advances from Wadi Zemzem towards Beni Ulid	NZ Army (H. Paton)
Beni Ulid - from a painting by R. L. Kay
New Zealand engineers clear a track on the route between Beni Ulid and Azizia	NZ Army (H. Paton)
A British armoured car near Tarhuna	NZ Army (H. Paton)
A New Zealand column approaches Tarhuna	NZ Army (H. Paton)
On the road to Azizia	NZ Army (H. Paton)
New Zealand sappers make friends with an Italian family on the way to Tripoli	NZ Army (H. Paton)
	Following page 170
General Freyberg confers with a Royal Scots Greys officer and Brigadier Weir near Azizia	NZ Army (H. Paton)
Entering Tripoli. Four Maori soldiers share a tin of bully beef; Maori anti-tank gunners drive through an avenue of bluegums	NZ Army (H. Paton)

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A New Zealand battalion on an Eighth Army church parade in Tripoli	NZ Army (H. Paton)
Unloading supplies from a lighter at Tripoli	NZ Army
Divisional parade for Mr Churchill at Castel Benito, 4 February 1943	NZ Army (H. Paton)
Mr Churchill takes the salute	NZ Army (H. Paton)
Medenine	J. M. Mitchell
Soft sand on the route to the Tebaga Gap	G. V. Turnbull
Operation SUPERCHARGE: an aerial mosaic of the Tebaga Gap	Army Air Photograph Interpretation Unit
A 1 Armoured Division tank on its way to the Tebaga Gap	K. G. Killob
The breakthrough at Tebaga. British tanks assemble for the advance to El Hamma	British official photograph
	Following page 234
Passing through Gabes. The inhabitants fill in a crossing over Wadi Gabes	NZ Army (H. Paton)
A Hurricane drops a message at New Zealand Corps Headquarters	J. C. White
Stretcher bearers carry wounded to an ambulance plane near Tebaga Gap	NZ Army (H. Paton)
Eighth Army advances to attack the Wadi Akarit position	Indian official photograph
NZASC vehicles pass through the Wadi Akarit defences	O. Bracegirdle
The Enfidaville battlefield—a relief model made by New Zealand engineers
Takrouna, from the east	French official photograph
5 Brigade's sector, showing the axes of advance of the three battalions of 5 Brigade
Takrouna. The Ledge, taken from the Pinnacle	NZ Army (M. D. Elias)
Looking south-east from Takrouna	K. G. Killoh

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The lower village	K. G. Killoh
New Zealand field artillery in action near Takrouna	NZ Army (M. D. Elias)
A convoy passes through a field of daisies	NZ Army (M. D. Elias)
Black diamond signs and cactus hedges mark the route forward	NZ Army (M. D. Elias)
Italian troops surrender north of Enfidaville	NZ Army (M. D. Elias)
General Montgomery	NZ Army (H. Paton)
Lieutenant-General Horrocks	British official photograph
10 Corps Headquarters awaits word of the enemy's capitulation, 13 May 1943
10 Corps' message to 1 Italian Army, 9.5 p.m., 12 May 1943, and situation report on 13 May notifying the surrender of the Italians	War Diary, G Branch, 2 NZ Division
Field Marshal Messe surrenders to General Freyberg, 13 May 1943	J. C. White
General Mannerini, GOC Saharan Group, with his Chief of Staff at Divisional Headquarters, 8 April 1943	NZ Army (H. Paton)
General von Liebenstein, GOC 164 Light Africa Division, surrenders on 13 May	J. C. White
German prisoners in Tunisia	NZ Army (M. D. Elias)
An Italian taken at Akarit	NZ Army (H. Paton)
War cemetery at Enfidaville	French official photograph
The Division returns to Egypt	NZ Army (H. Paton)
The end of a 2000-mile journey. Passing through Maadi township; arriving at Maadi Camp	NZ Army (H. Paton)

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