As a result of Operation STRIKE, which started at 3:00 am the previous morning, General Sir Harold Alexander's 18th Army Group capture Bizerte and Tunis. The intense artillery barrage in the Medjerda valley which began the operation had five times the density of any laid down at El Alamein. All that remains of the German force is General Gustav von Vaerst's 5th Panzer Army on the Cape Bon peninsula.