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- Western_Desert_Campaign abstract "The Western Desert Campaign or the Desert War, took place in the Western Desert of Egypt and Libya and was a theatre in the North African Campaign during the Second World War. The campaign began in September 1940, with the Italian invasion of Egypt. The Italians halted to bring up supplies, and Operation Compass, a British five-day raid in December 1940, led to the destruction of the Italian 10th Army. Benito Mussolini sought help from Hitler and a small German blocking detachment (Sperrverband) was sent to Tripoli under Directive 22 (11 January), being the first units of the Afrika Korps (Generalleutnant Erwin Rommel), under nominal Italian command but Italian dependency on Nazi Germany made it the dominant partner.In the Spring of 1941 Axis forces under Rommel pushed the British-led allied forces back and reached Tobruk which was besieged. The allied force there held out and were relieved during Operation Crusader, who then pushed the Axis forces back to where they had started by the end of the year. In 1942 Axis forces drove the Allies back capturing Tobruk but failed to gain a decisive victory. On the final Axis push to Egypt the Allies retreated to El Alamein, where at the Second Battle of El Alamein the Eighth Army defeated the Axis forces, which never recovered and were driven out of Libya to Tunisia, where they were defeated in the Tunisia Campaign. After the British defeats in the Balkan Campaign, the Western Desert Campaign had become more important to British strategy. For Adolf Hitler the Eastern Front dwarfed the desert war, which was a holding action of secondary importance. The Axis never had sufficient resources or the means to deliver them to defeat the British, who in their turn missed several opportunities to finish the campaign, by diverting resources to Greece and the Levant in 1941 and the Far East in 1942.".
- Western_Desert_Campaign combatant "*".
- Western_Desert_Campaign combatant "*Anglo-Egyptian Sudan".
- Western_Desert_Campaign combatant "*French colonial empire".
- Western_Desert_Campaign combatant "Free Czechoslovakia".
- Western_Desert_Campaign combatant "Free Greece".
- Western_Desert_Campaign combatant "Free Poland".
- Western_Desert_Campaign combatant "South Africa".
- Western_Desert_Campaign commander Archibald_Wavell,_1st_Earl_Wavell.
- Western_Desert_Campaign commander Bernard_Montgomery.
- Western_Desert_Campaign commander Claude_Auchinleck.
- Western_Desert_Campaign commander Erwin_Rommel.
- Western_Desert_Campaign commander Ettore_Bastico.
- Western_Desert_Campaign commander Georg_Stumme.
- Western_Desert_Campaign commander Harold_Alexander,_1st_Earl_Alexander_of_Tunis.
- Western_Desert_Campaign commander Italo_Balbo.
- Western_Desert_Campaign commander Rodolfo_Graziani.
- Western_Desert_Campaign date "1940-06-11".
- Western_Desert_Campaign isPartOfMilitaryConflict North_African_Campaign.
- Western_Desert_Campaign place Egypt.
- Western_Desert_Campaign place Libya.
- Western_Desert_Campaign place Libyan_Desert.
- Western_Desert_Campaign result "Allied victory".
- Western_Desert_Campaign thumbnail El_Alamein_1942_-_British_infantry.jpg?width=300.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageExternalLink battles1942.htm.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageExternalLink TC.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageExternalLink hart.asp.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageExternalLink www.nationalarchives.gov.uk.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageExternalLink 1296ii.pdf.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageExternalLink RCDIG1070200.
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- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageExternalLink 1.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageExternalLink supply-statistics-for-north-africa.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageExternalLink www.AFRIKAKORPS.org.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageExternalLink libribyavia_aeronautica_italiana.asp.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageExternalLink a404277.pdf.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageExternalLink tei-WH2Alam.html.
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- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageID "979204".
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- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageRevisionID "708283678".
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink 10th_Indian_Infantry_Brigade.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink 11th_Indian_Infantry_Brigade.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink 15th_Panzer_Division_(Wehrmacht).
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink 1st_(United_Kingdom)_Division.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink 1st_Libyan_Division_Sibelle.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink 22nd_Guards_Brigade.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink 2nd_Armoured_Brigade_(United_Kingdom).
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink 2nd_Armoured_Division_(United_Kingdom).
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink 2nd_Infantry_Division_(South_Africa).
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink 32nd_Army_Tank_Brigade_(United_Kingdom).
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- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink 7th_Royal_Tank_Regiment.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink 7th_Support_Group_(United_Kingdom).
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink 41.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink 8th_Kings_Royal_Irish_Hussars.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink 9th_Division_(Australia).
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- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink Adolf_Hitler.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink Afrika_Korps.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink Alan_Cunningham.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink Alexandria.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink Alfred_Reade_Godwin-Austen.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink Anglo-Egyptian_Sudan.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink Anglo-Egyptian_treaty_of_1936.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink Antelat.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink Archibald_Wavell,_1st_Earl_Wavell.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink Armistice_of_22_June_1940.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink Auto-Saharan_Company.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink B._H._Liddell_Hart.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink Babini_Group.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink Baggush_Box.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink Balkan_Campaign_(World_War_II).
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink Ballantine_Books.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink Bardia.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Alam_el_Halfa.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Crete.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Gazala.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Greece.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink Beda_Fomm.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink Bedouin.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink Benghazi.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink Benito_Mussolini.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink Bernard_Montgomery.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink Bizerte.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink Blackshirts.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink Bonner_Fellers.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink Brega.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink Buerat.
- Western_Desert_Campaign wikiPageWikiLink Cairo.