GRUESOME SCENE
ECHO OF BIR HAKHEIM O am) LONDON, Dec. 13. The Fighting French have re-occu-nied Bir Hakheim, where they tounct the skeletons of their comrades scattered across the desert where the Italians and Germans had left them in more than 80 unburied heaps. A Foreign Legion lieutenantcolonel superintended the burial of the dead, which included his son.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20966, 14 December 1942, Page 3
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58GRUESOME SCENE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20966, 14 December 1942, Page 3
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