| LC control no. | sh2010014053 |
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| Topical heading | Operation Battleaxe, 1941 |
| Variant(s) | Battleaxe, Operation, 1941 |
| See also | World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Libya |
| Found in | Work cat.: Operation Crusader, 1941, 2010: p. 5 (Operation Battleaxe) BBC website, Oct. 4, 2010 WW2 people's war fact file : Operation Battleaxe page (operation in which the Allied 13th Corps engaged the Deutsches Afrika Korps in a failed effort to relieve the siege of Tobruk in June of 1941; Operation Battleaxe was the second attempt to relieve the siege of Tobruk following the failed Operation Brevity in May of 1941) PBS website, Oct. 4, 2010 The war, North Africa page (Operation Battleaxe began on June 15, 1941 with a frontal attack through the Halfaya Pass toward Sollum in an effort to remove the Germans from Tobruk; the operation was over by June 17 with the British armoured troops losing 91 tanks in the battle) |
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