26th April - 7th May 1941
Yugoslavia surrenders - which is nice [8D]. A few more units are sent East. But the real action is in the desert where the Kiwis have gone the same way as their Australian cousins. The Mother of all Battles Radio in Rome reports triumphantly "there is not a single British soldier in Libya".
While Mussolini congratulates himself on what the Germans achieve in his own colony, the Germans have moved on. By-passing the British VII Corps at Sidi Barrani, Rommel orders his mobile elements forward to Mersa Matruh, where the British deployed the 7th Armoured Division. A combination of anti-tank guns and tanks sees the British armour destroyed; next stop the heavily fortified El-Alamein line....
