El Uach - The Matrix Games version of West Front
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| First Side: | British |
| Second Side: | Italy |
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16 December 1940
El Uach, Italian Somaliland: At the immediate border of Kenya and the Italian Somaliland, British General Godwin-Austen chooses the South African Dingaan's Day to initiate his African force in combat against the Italian Africa Orientale force at El Uach. Back in July a British company had snatched the village away from the Italians, but after the Axis troops regrouped from their initial panic they counterattacked and recaptured the place and have held it since. As a rehearsal for bigger things to come General Godwin-Austen has mustered an overwhelming" force to oust the Italian LtColonel Aveta's Askari's from the place, staging from El Wak in Kenya. Some of the Allied troops liken the occassion to using "an elephant gun to shoot a hare". A forgotten battle, in the annals of the Second World War; however after the Allied victory here, Allied morale "soared" in East Africa, the euphoria remaining as they drove up the Somali coast taking objectives and driving the Italian forces before them. After the battle, the Italian area commander General Pesenti recommended to Addis Ababa an immediate armistice followed by a surrender of all of Italian East Africa. That, of course, did not occur.
El Uach, Italian Somaliland: At the immediate border of Kenya and the Italian Somaliland, British General Godwin-Austen chooses the South African Dingaan's Day to initiate his African force in combat against the Italian Africa Orientale force at El Uach. Back in July a British company had snatched the village away from the Italians, but after the Axis troops regrouped from their initial panic they counterattacked and recaptured the place and have held it since. As a rehearsal for bigger things to come General Godwin-Austen has mustered an overwhelming" force to oust the Italian LtColonel Aveta's Askari's from the place, staging from El Wak in Kenya. Some of the Allied troops liken the occassion to using "an elephant gun to shoot a hare". A forgotten battle, in the annals of the Second World War; however after the Allied victory here, Allied morale "soared" in East Africa, the euphoria remaining as they drove up the Somali coast taking objectives and driving the Italian forces before them. After the battle, the Italian area commander General Pesenti recommended to Addis Ababa an immediate armistice followed by a surrender of all of Italian East Africa. That, of course, did not occur.
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