Units from the 1st Para Brigade dropped Motion_directional near Bône on 12 November , then near Souk el-Arba and Béja on 13 November , and at Pont Du Fahs on 29 November , seizing Conquering airfields , fighting Hostile_encounter as infantry after each action and linking Connect up with an Allied armoured force , supporting Supporting it until December .

Due to the inability of units of the British First Army to link Connect up with the Pont Du Fahs force , the 2nd Parachute Battalion , under Lieutenant Colonel John Frost , was forced Request to retreat Escaping over fifty miles towards the nearest Allied units ; it was attacked Attack several times during the retreat Escaping , and although it reached Arriving Allied lines safely it had taken Getting more than 250 casualties Catastrophe .

Of the remainder , only eighty-seven men arrived at Arriving the Pont Grande Bridge , although they successfully captured Conquering the bridge and held Defending it beyond the time they were to be relieved .