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Military Book Review The Italian Army in North Africa, 1940-43: Luck Was Lacking, But Valor Was Not

Military Book Review The Italian Army in North Africa, 1940-43: Luck Was Lacking, But Valor Was Not
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British Anti-tank Artillery Were Forged in the Fires of World War II

The British desert commanders needed to drastically change their field gun tactical doctrine because of the disadvantage under which the Eighth Army operated.

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Operation Brevity delivers mixed results | World War II

(May 14, 2021) This week, 80 years ago, Commonwealth forces in North Africa launched a limited offensive against Erwin Rommelâs Axis forces. Before delving into the particulars of that operation, letâs reacquaint ourselves with the history. Libya was an Italian colony, and had been so since the Kingdom of Italy wrested it from the Ottoman Empire in 1912. It was bordered on the west and south by the French colonies of Tunisia, Algeria and modern-day Chad and Niger. It was bordered on the east by British-dominated Egypt. When the Italians declared war on the British and French on June 10, 1940, their colony was surrounded on three sides by enemies. However, on June 22, France executed an Armistice with Germany and ceased fighting. On Sept. 9, 1940, the Italian Tenth Army, under the command of Spanish Civil War veteran, Mario Berti, crossed the Egyptian border and advanced 60 miles east into Egypt, stopping at Sidi Barrani, 240 miles west of Alexandria.

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Battle of Beda 80 years ago results in Italian sacking

(Feb. 5, 2021) This week, 80 years ago, Commonwealth Forces completed the destruction of the remnants of the Italian Tenth Army at Beda Fomm in Libya. Beda Fomm, is in the province of Cyrenaica, which is the eastern most of the three Libyan provinces, and borders on Egypt in the east. Beda Fomm was near the coast in the west of the province, east of the Gulf of Sirte and south of Jebel Akhdar, which was a raised area with plenty of water and vegetation. By this time, the Tenth Army had been driven out of Egypt and out of most of Cyrenaica. The Governor-Gen. of Libya, Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, on Feb. 1, 1941, decided to abandon Cyrenaica and concentrate his forces for the defense of the western-most Libyan province of Tripolitania, and the colonyâs capital of Tripoli.

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Battle of Derna first in series of power struggles

The next stop was Derna, a small port 90 miles west of Tobruk on the Mediterranean. The commander of Dernaâs defenses was Lt.-Gen. Annibale Bergonzoli who had escaped, first from Sidi Barrani to Bardia, then to Tobruk, and now to Derna. Because of his beard, Gen. Bergonzoli was known as âBarba Elettricaâ (âElectric Beardâ). Barba Elettrica had commanded the Littorio Division in the Spanish Civil War, and in the recent invasion of Egypt, was commander of the XXIII Corps. At the time, Derna had a population of about 10,000. Today, its population tops 100,000. The city is located at the eastern end of Jebel Akhdar (âGreen Mountainâ), making it the rare forested area in Libya. There has been a city at that site for more than 2,000 years.

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