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3 days ago · Craig is liberated by frogmen from a prisoner ship and flown into the Sahara on the eve of the Battle of El Alamein to guide a strike force 800 miles across the desert to blow up Rommel’s underground fuel tanks in Tobruk, Bergman’s outfit providing the perfect cover as Germans escorting British prisoners. “It’s suicide,” protests Craig.
2 days ago · Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful liberation of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II. The operation was launched on 6 June 1944 ( D-Day) with the Normandy landings (Operation Neptune).
4 days ago · Control of major cities and oil ports in Libya, August 2018. Libya's major cities and oil ports, split between the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord and the Tobruk-based House of Representatives, backed by the Libyan National Army, August 2018.
4 days ago · Overview of aerial bombardment in Europe during World War II, with a detailed discussion of the Battle of Britain. With France conquered, Hitler could now turn his forces on Germany’s sole remaining enemy: Great Britain, which was protected from the formidable German Army by the waters of the English Channel.
5 days ago · Around the 16 th of April 1941, she was ordered to return to Alexandria, Egypt where she eventually joined the legendary Scrap Iron Flotilla until October 1941, and successfully completed 39 individual passages between Alexandra and Tobruk as part of the ‘Tobruk Ferry Service’, often referred to as the ‘Spud Run’.
4 days ago · On January 3, 1941, the British assault on Bardia began, and three days later the whole garrison of Bardia surrendered—45,000 men. The next fortress to the west, Tobruk (Ṭubruq), was assaulted on January 23 and captured the next day (30,000 more prisoners).
3 days ago · Over the course of the operation, over 3.8 million personnel of the Axis powers—the largest invasion force in the history of warfare —invaded the western Soviet Union, along a 2,900-kilometer (1,800 mi) front, with 600,000 motor vehicles and over 600,000 horses for non-combat operations.
