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...land the confident Italians began what appeared to be a giant pinch on the Canal. They drove a small British garrison out of British Somaliland, and undertook an invasion of Egypt which stalled at Sidi Barrani. Then came a turning point in the Eastern basin. Benito Mussolini called for an invasion of Greece...
...stared defiance. In Libya the Axis fought against Australians, the tough colonists of empire (see p. 22), and against Free Frenchmen, auxiliary believers in empire (see p. 24). In Eritrea the Axis fought against imperial experience, which used religion as a weapon (see p. 22). In Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland, the Axis faced black men as well as white (see p. 24). The Axis knew that the only way to kill this thing before it was itself dismembered by the tentacles was to 'strike at the head. How and when this blow would fall (see below), as well...
...interior who had never seen the sea before the war. But last week Kenya's Navy made up in gallantry for what it lacked in gear and seamanship. It embarked some Nigerian shock troops from a Kenya port, landed them efficiently in a mangrove swamp near the Italian Somaliland border. Marching all night through a deserted countryside, the Nigerians raided Ras Chiamboni, formerly an important base for Italian operations in Kenya but now nearly undefended. They burned the whole town except for a mosque, then returned to their colleagues in empire...
Land patrols based on Kenya continued to raid small Italian outposts in Ethiopia and elsewhere in Italian Somaliland. The South African air force bombed and machine-gunned forts and military buildings, and helped seize several vital waterholes...
...south in Kenya, British patrols had similar success. At week's end the Kenya spearheads were well into Italian Somaliland and southern Ethiopia...