TUNISIAN LOSSES
Total Of About 300,000 For Enemy
FURTHER FIGURES LONDON, June 8. Reviewing the casualties in the Tunisian campaign, the Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill, in his statement in the House of Commons, stated that the total number of Axis prisoners passing through Alljed cages was 248,000. This is an increase of 24,000 on the figure last given. Fifty thousand of the enemy were killed, he sai'd, making a total Axis loss of about 300,000. Since crossing the Tunisian frontier the Eighth Army lost about 11,500 men, and the First Army about 23,500, in killed, missing and wounded.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 217, 9 June 1943, Page 5
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98TUNISIAN LOSSES Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 217, 9 June 1943, Page 5
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