The RAF, communique said British planes' bombod Benghazi heavily on "Wednesday night, facilitating capture of the town. The communtque also reported that British: bomb: arp simultaneously strafed the acro~ drome at Benina and raided Berka, Tedabya, Keren and Assab.
'The South African Aly Force, the communique said, shot down' two Italian fighters near Asmara and destroyed three at an aerodrome at Bahrdar-—United Press, The capture of Benghazi was another master stroke of strategy comparable with the capture of Sidi Bar-Tani, The talions had expected a0 attack along the coastal roads through most dificult country.
Instead, British armoured troops swept across 130 miles of barren and waterless desert "from El Mechill, along tracks only used by an occu' sional caravan, to attack Benghazi from the east, appearing like a bolt from out of the desert blue long before the Ttalians anticipated an at-
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