The West Desert Force and the Battleaxes in North Africa

Operation Battleaxe in North Africa pushed the Germans back across a large part of Serenayka. Dick O'Connor is captured, Neem is captured and they spend the next couple of years in prison wall camps in, in Italy. The British counterattack again in June 1942, 41 rather, Operation Battle axe in North Africa. Whilst at the same time having to put down insurrections in Iraq and then subsequently Iran,. Also fight battles in Syria, which are successful. So there's a lot of, lot of draw on those Duke forces in the Middle East. And battle axes is very limited in its success. It doesn't achieve what it's supposed to do.