AXIS LOSSES
IN TUNISIAN CAMPAIGN 324,000 KILLED, WOUNDED OR TAKEN PRISONER. PANTELLERIA HEAVILY BATTERED. LONDON. May 19. Axis losses in the Tunisia campaign have been officially checked up. A total of 324.1)6(1 Germans and Italians have been killed, wounded or taken prisoner. Altogether, 224,000 men, the majority Germans, were taken in the final battle. The island of Pantelleria, between Tunisia and Sicily, had its heaviest battering yesterday from the air, when about 90 tons of bombs' were dropped. Six merchant ships in harbour were hit, jetties and warehouses set on fire, and the airfield pitted with more bomb craters. At least five aircraft on the ground were hit, A communique from French North Africa states that yesterday French naval units took part .in the Allied occupation of the island of La Galite, one of a small group of islands off the coast of Northern Tunisia, about 25 miles north-west of Cap Serrat.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 May 1943, Page 3
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