The Archive · 1941

Axis Losses

Cairo, May 17.

At least 200 Italo-German vehicles were rendered unserviceable during the last 24 hours as Royal Air Force planes swooped on Italo-German freons and mechanized units to aid the British ground forces to recapture Solum, it was officially announced here last night, The RAF, played a prominent role in the recapture of the Eevntian border city, carrying out a systematic and thorough attacks of Germa" and Italian troops, tanks and armoured cars from the west to as far as Eladem on the south and Tobruk on the coast, the announcement said.—United Press,

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