SLATE INFORMATION: The Middle East Front: We have lost the Battle of Libya, but we release these pictures because we know you have the courage to look at them - our soldiers went through hell for you - and all they ask in return is - confidence!

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AEROPLANES R.A.F. & NAVAL PLANES. South African Air Force Bostons over enemy territory in Libya...dead bodies of soldiers lying on ground

MILITARY BRITISH. Scenes in Libya before its fall..more prisoners..Bostons over battle area..fighting in sandstorm

PRISONERS OF WAR. More prisoners taken in Western Desert before the fall of Libya

SAND AND SANDSTORMS. Fighting in Western Desert during sandstorm

SLATE INFORMATION: Our soldiers went through hell for you - and all they ask in return is - confidence!

Period Attitudes; Military - Active; Media, Second World War, WWII, tanks, troops
Background: Footage of the defeat of Major General Neil Ritchie's British Eighth Army in the Western Desert Campaign (Desert War / North African Campaign) and the Fall of Tobruk during World War II.