Battles of Tobruk

Article abstract: Type of action: Ground battles in World War II. Result: British liberation and German recapture of the Allied fortress at Tobruk.

After the brilliant victories of General Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Corps in the western desert campaigns in the spring of 1941, the Germans controlled all of North Africa except the strategic Libyan port of Tobruk in the province of Cyrenaica west of the Egyptian frontier. Tobruk was the only large harbor along the Libyan coastline between Benghazi and Alexandria. Both sides understood that Tobruk must fall in order for...

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