Compass ends after a 500-mile advance
The British official history records a campaign advance of about 500 miles by a force that never exceeded roughly two divisions, one of them armoured. Its accounting gives about 130,000 Italian prisoners, 180 medium tanks, more than 200 light tanks and 845 field guns or larger pieces captured or destroyed. British losses were 500 killed, 1,373 wounded and 55 missing. The mobile formations now required repair and replacement, and British strategic priorities were shifting toward Greece. German forces were also beginning to move into Libya, setting the conditions for the…
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