The Advance to Moyale files - The Matrix Games version of West Front
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18 January, 1941
El Yibo, Kenya: With the coming of the year 1941, the British began their three pronged assault against Mussolini's "Africa Orientale". The southern prong was to be an advance from Kenya to retake the Kenyan border town of Moyale, occupied by the Italian Lachi Division in June 1940, and on into Abyssinia toward Addis Ababa via Mega. On 15 January the 2nd South African Brigade was ordered to "clear Moyale". First things first, the Commonwealth forces would have to clear the Italian outposts established at El Yibo and El Sarduaren southeast of Moyale. Advancing from Marsabit, through the almost uninhabitable lava deserts of northern Kenya, elements of the 2nd South African Brigade began their assault on the Italian lines in "intense heat". The Italian forces did not have their hearts in the fight and were delaying only until the time their divisional assets could get on their way to Mega, abandoning Moyale. Characteristically for this theater, what was intended, by the British, to be only a limited advance would evolve into a decisive thrust.
El Yibo, Kenya: With the coming of the year 1941, the British began their three pronged assault against Mussolini's "Africa Orientale". The southern prong was to be an advance from Kenya to retake the Kenyan border town of Moyale, occupied by the Italian Lachi Division in June 1940, and on into Abyssinia toward Addis Ababa via Mega. On 15 January the 2nd South African Brigade was ordered to "clear Moyale". First things first, the Commonwealth forces would have to clear the Italian outposts established at El Yibo and El Sarduaren southeast of Moyale. Advancing from Marsabit, through the almost uninhabitable lava deserts of northern Kenya, elements of the 2nd South African Brigade began their assault on the Italian lines in "intense heat". The Italian forces did not have their hearts in the fight and were delaying only until the time their divisional assets could get on their way to Mega, abandoning Moyale. Characteristically for this theater, what was intended, by the British, to be only a limited advance would evolve into a decisive thrust.
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