VICTORY THAT NEVER CAME
NEW YORK, May 17. A Los Angeles message said that Rear-Admiral Cochrane disclosed that part of the cargo of an Axis ehip raised off the African coast in the autumn ot 1&42 consisted of 1000 medals destined for distribution as soon as the conquest of Egypt was completed. The medal showed Italian and German soldiers pulling a crocodile from a river, symbolizing the expulsion of the British from Egypt.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 197, 18 May 1944, Page 6
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73VICTORY THAT NEVER CAME Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 197, 18 May 1944, Page 6
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