Cut off in the capital Tunis, other ports and in the mountains with no supplies to continue the fight, the Germans capitulated en masse. By 13 May, 240,000 Afrika Korps and Italians had become prisoners. The Luftwaffe lost a third of its total strength in the campaign from November 1942 to May 1943, with some 2,400 aircraft destroyed. By comparison, the RAF and USAAF lost just 849.
