In this photograph Italian prisoners of war are seen being herded out of Tunis as the British V Corps entered the capital on May 7, 1943, the same day American armored and infantry divisions pushed the retreating Germans out of the port city of Bizerte in the north of the country. At 12:30 on May 13, one day after Mussolini had named him Field Marshal, Giovanni Messe surrendered the remainder of the Italian First Army.
