EAST AFRICAN CAMPAIGN 1940-41 Official History of the Indian Armed Forces in the Second World War 1939-45 Campaigns in the Western Theatre

The East African campaign was the first Allied strategic victory in the war; few Italian forces escaped the region to be used in other campaigns and the Italian defeat greatly eased the flow of supplies through the Red Sea to Egypt. Most of the Commonwealth forces were transferred to North Africa to participate in the Western Desert campaign.