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	Probert Encyclopaedia: Battles (The Second World War Part 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		The Battle of Arnhem was an airborne operation by the Allies, between the 17th and 26th of September 1944 during the Second World War, to secure a bridgehead over the Rhine, thereby opening the way for a thrust towards the Ruhr and a possible early end to the war.
		The Battle of Beda Fomm was a catastrophic Italian defeat at the hands of the British during the North African Campaign on the 7th of February 1941.
		The Battle of Britain had been intended as a preliminary to the German invasion plan Operation Sea Lion, which Hitler indefinitely postponed on the 17th of September and abandoned on the 10th of October, choosing instead to invade the USSR, and the bombing raids were switched to civilian targets.
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	First Battle of El Alamein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The First Battle of El Alamein 1–July 31, 1942 was a battle of the Western Desert Campaign of World War II, fought between the German–Italian Afrika Korps commanded by Erwin Rommel and the British Eighth Army, commanded by Claude Auchinleck.
		Following the defeat at the Battle of Gazala in June 1942, the Eighth Army had retreated from Mersa Matruh to the Alamein Line in Egypt, a 40 mile (60 km) gap between the town of El Alamein on the Mediterranean coast to the north and the Qattara Depression in the desert to the south.
		A second attempt by Rommel to bypass or break the Commonwealth position was repulsed in the Battle of Alam Halfa in August, and in October the Eighth Army, now commanded by Bernard Montgomery, decisively defeated the Axis forces in the Second Battle of El Alamein.
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	Journal
		The battle of El Alamein, however, truly deserves such a soubriquet for at this obscure Egyptian railway halt between July and November 1942 the Eighth Army stopped and then reversed the relentless advance of the German army.
		Throughout, the differences are recognised as a consequence of a lack of training, a lack of familiarity with the strengths and roles of comrades-in-arms in a combined arms battle, and a failure by all to fully appreciate the wider responsibilities.
		Similarly, the 60th anniversary of the battle of El Alamein was overshadowed by the tragic events in Bali, and the commemoration passed relatively unnoticed.
	www.awm.gov.au /journal/j37/alameinreview.htm (1461 words)

	The Probert Encyclopaedia - Weapons and Warfare (B)
		The Battle of Algiers was a bitter conflict in Algiers from 1954 to 1962 between the Algerian nationalist population and the French colonial army and French settlers.
		The Battle of Culloden was a defeat in 1746 of the Jacobite rebel army of the British prince Charles Edward Stuart (the 'Young Pretender') by the Duke of Cumberland on a stretch of moorland in Inverness-shire, Scotland.
		The Battle of Navas de Tolosa was fought in 1212 between Yakub Almansur of the Almohades and the kings of Aragon, Castile and Navarre.
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	Top 25 Tactical Feats Pt.2 - History Forum
		In point of tactics, this was the most brilliant battle of the Revolutionary war, and it still appears brilliant when judged by the standards that we apply to the work of the greatest masters of the military art.
		Gazala was a stroke of tactical genius on Rommels behalf to cope the doctrine mobile war, in which a feint in the North was rapidly followed by a attack in the South in an tremendous outflanking maneuver.
		This battle marks a revolution in military tactics, introducing the first known instance of a deliberate concentration of attack upon the vital point of the enemy’s line.
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		Sixty years ago German and Italian forces won the Battle of Gazala which resulted in the fall of Tobruk.
		This great victory contributed much to the height of Rommel’s pedestal but it was a division of Italians that saved him from having to surrender and it was the inadequacy of British leadership that allowed him to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.
		Advanced Tobruk covers the sweeping tank battles that raged in the North African desert from 1940 to 1943 with 24 scenarios, 2 geomorphic maps, 1034 counters and the promise to sell you lots of expansions.
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	Telegraph \| News \| The Rev Grant Westlake
		In May 1942 Westlake was appointed adjutant of the 1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery and took part in the battle of Gazala, Libya, a defensive action that hinged on the stubborn resistance of the Free French at Bir Hacheim.
		During the battle, 1 RHA ran short of ammunition, and Westlake was dispatched to intercept a relief convoy.
		Westlake took part in the invasions of Sicily and Italy as artillery staff officer, and in the battles for the Garigliano crossing and Monte Cassino; he was mentioned in dispatches.
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	Comando Supremo: Events of 1942 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		The Ariete joins the 15th and 21st Panzer to battle the 42nd and 7th Royal Tank Regiments, including the II, IV and XXII Armoured, IX and X Indian and the CCI Guards brigades.
		In the following battle the Regia Marina's direct attack sank the British destroyer Bedouin and forced an altered and delaying route on the British, allowing the Axis air forces to reduce the convoy from 6 to 2 transports.
		The fighting lasted for one week and constituted four separate battles; the central sector on the 23rd, the northern sector near Naqb Rala on the 24th, the central sector again on the 24th and 25th, and the southern sector on the 25th, 26th and 29th.
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		The battle of Arras, May 21-22 1940 in the French blitzkrieg series.
		The battle of Gembloux, May 14-15 1940 in the French blitzkrieg series.
		The battles of the Ryzavets bridgehead and Oboyan Hills.
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	The North African Campaign Of World War II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		The Battle of Gazala has become known as Rommels finest moment in battle, but a close examination of it reveals that the outcome was more due to the incapacity of the Allied Desert Command (Auchinleck and Ritchie) to cope with such a mobile war.
		Alam Halfa are extremely similar in that a feint or fake in the North was followed by the real attack in the South in an outflanking manouvre.
		Gazala was hardly a stroke of genius on Rommels behalf, but it did reach its objective and pushed the Eighth Army further back towards Egypt.
	www.topedge.com /panels/ww2/na/gazala.html (201 words)

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		The Battle for the Gazala Line: After a two-month lull in the action to build-up, Rommel attacks the Gazala Line.
		The Battle of the Gazala Line: Rommel, fuel and now, more importantly water supplies nearing exhaustion, abandons the original plan for the battle and concentrates his forces near Sidi Muftah.
		Unable to follow-up his victory in “the Cauldron” battle three days earlier, due to lack of resources and the threats to the north and south, Rommel decides to secure his position by turning on the Free French position to the south at Bir Hakeim on the Gazala Line.
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		The Gazala Line was breached and the first stage of the battle was won, although not yet decisively, by Rommel.
		The climax of the Battle of Gazala begins as a massive melee of German and British armor clash.
		The battle that started with a foolhardy advance by Rommel and came close to complete disaster for the Desert Fox ends in victory.
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	III. The Scenarios
		Therefore, to tell the story in the Desert War for 1942, it was essential to begin with Gazala and this earlier phase of the battle in 1942.
		Battle of Alamein this veteran division was dug-in on the Nile.
		Battle of Alamein and was deemed to be in need of training after it had arrived.
	home.hiwaay.net /~tiller/glenn/alamein/Notes/III_The_Scenarios.htm (6383 words)

	Gazala changes. - FileFront Gaming Forums
		The Battle of Gazala was actually several battles that occured between May 26th 1942 and ended with the British retreat on June 14th 1942 to Martruth, and then to El Alamein (I think it was Martruth).
		It was a British defensive line that ran from the coastal town of Gazala to the Free French Fort of Bir Hacheim.
		Gazala made heavy use of Stuka's and Knightsbridge had the 426th battery of the Regimental Royal Horse Artillery who apparently used their 25lbrs in direct fire mode as A/T guns and held off German attacks for 3 days before running out of ammunition and surrendering.
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	CFS2 Missions page 8
		This mission is based on a historic event during the Battle for Gazala.
		"Battle of Port Darwin"(New Version) by Yoshi The task force of the Admiral Nagumo attacked port Darwin in Austraria in February, 1941.
		The state of the battle of two days on 5 from June 4, 1942 can be experienced in such cases as the Dutchharbor attack.
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	Panzer Abwehr: February 2005
		During the battle to relieve Tobruk, Robert Crisp's Stuart was ambushed by a German 50mm PAK38, and disabled.
		After the 2nd Battle of El-Alamein, the 24th Armoured brigade was dissolved and its equipment and personnel were used as replacements for the units that were preserved.
		When the 1st Armoured Brigade arrived at the Battle of Gazala in May 1942, the brigade was dissolved and their equipment and troops used to reinforce the other units and was never reformed.
	panzer-abwehr.blogspot.com /2005_02_01_panzer-abwehr_archive.html (3766 words)

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		The Battle of Gazala itself has already been done, and done well, by the old GDW FALL OF TOBRUK, and the more recent People's War Games' GAZALA.
		FOX is a regimental/battalion level treatment of the battle, and all of the tactical niceties of mechanized warfare are nicely covered within that format.
		In my opinion, Erwin Rommel was a talented tactician and one of the few commanders in 1942 who understood the proper use of armor; however, his overall strategic vision was flawed by an unwillingness to accept logistical limitations.
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	Battle of Gazala
		Panzer II and Panzer III tanks of the Afrika Korps during the Battle of Gazala shown in military art print Battle of Gazala by David Pentland, part of the German tank series of military prints published by Cranston Fine Arts.
		In May 1942 Field Marshal Rommel launched an attack against Gazala using two diversionary Italian corps at the north end of the line while the two other corps (the Afrika and Italian corps) corps veered towards Tobruck from the southern end of the line.
		Panzer II's and III's of the African Korps, 15th Panzer Division drive towards Arcoma during the epic battles for the Gazala line.
	www.military-art.com /dhm774.htm (773 words)

	World War II Plus 55 - May 27 to May 30, 1942
		In Syria, intelligence reports and briefings on the battle at Gazala arrive on the desks of the 2nd New Zealand Division.
		The battle rages amid a terrible dust storm, and men die from the heat.
		Fletcher will be in overall command of the battle, and his orders are to "inflict maximum damage on enemy by employing strong attrition tactics.
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	Amazon.ca: Books: Tomorrow to Be Brave : A Memoir of the Only Woman Ever to Serve in the French Foreign Legion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Bir Hakeim was the southernmost part of the Allied position at the Battle of Gazala, and it was an important one.
		Travers was Koenig's driver for the whole battle, which means that when the breakout occurred, she drove the general's car.
		After the battle, she and the general had to separate (the German propaganda machine made a thing of their affair) and she spent most of the rest of the war driving an ambulance or doctors.
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	Battlefront - Producers of fine metal and resin miniatures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		The Gazala Line was a series of defences running between Gazala on the coast and Bir Hacheim in the desert.
		The Gazala Line was held by the XIII Corps while the XXX Corps (including both the 1st and 7th Armoured Divisions) was positioned in the desert to the south.
		The success of the Axis at the Gazala Line and the subsequent taking of Tobruk buoyed their confidence and Rommel was determined to take the line at El Alamein despite the serious losses inflicted on them by the 7th Armoured and the rest of 8th Army.
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	The ACG/SZO Discussion Forums - CM:ICS - Axis Commanders' Thread. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		With Rommel's North African campaign in full swing and the battle of Gazala underway west of Tobruk, the British doctrine of grouping in defensive strong points was put to the test by constant attacks from German armour all along the front line.
		Many heroic battles occurred in the period between the 26th of May and the 17th of June, not least of which was the one that took place in the small town of El-Kafir...
		Our attacks on the Gazala defensive line are proving succesful and it is only a matter of time before we will be able to push on to Tobruk itself.
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	Marine Corps Electronic Warfare--A Combat Power Multiplier
		The importance of electronic warfare was particularly demonstrated at the battle of Gazala-Bir Hacheim (Tobruk), June, 1942.
		If Rommel had had the capability to jam the British tactical communication systems during that battle, the consequences could have been expected to be even more terrible [for the British] during the British withdrawal.
		ENDNOTES 1 Mario de Arcangelis, Electronic Warfare: From the Battle of Tsushima to the Falklands and Lebanon Conflicts, Blandford Press, Dorset, United Kingdom, 1985, p.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/report/1990/RSC.htm (3507 words)

	Avalanche Press
		The 132nd Armored Division was officially formed in February 1939 from the 2nd Armored Brigade and 8th Bersaglieri Regiment, but experiments and manuevers had been under way for almost two years by that point and granting the “division” title was a formality.
		Ariete opened Operazione Venetia, later known as the Battle of Gazala, by overrunning and destroying the 3rd Indian Motor Brigade on the morning of 27 May 1942, but soon suffered heavy losses in an ill-considered attack on the Free French brigade dug in at Bir Hacheim.
		Ariete was successful at Gazala thanks to an experienced organization with high morale and good leadership, and despite the fact that its tanks were badly outclassed by the American-made machines of the British.
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	Battle Honours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		The CTH has 20 battle honours on its Regimental Colour, more than almost any other South African regiment, some of them much older; They include the very rare "Alamein Box"
		The CTH is still claiming 15 battle honours awarded for service in France and Flanders to the 4th SA Infantry (SA Scottish), a service battalion formed by itself and the Transvaal Scottish.
		and then made the service units’ battle honours transferable to their parent regiments.
	www.cthighlanders.co.za /cth/battle.htm (147 words)

	Avalanche Press
		During those years, a number of German and Italian airborne units fought in Libya and Egypt, from the independent battalions of Italian paratroopers that bravely resisted the initial British offensive into Libya to the Folgore Division and Ramcke Brigade that held the center of the line at El Alamein when the Afrika Korps collapsed.
		One German battalion had arrived in Libya in May 1942, the Burkhardt Battalion of “Lehr” or demonstration troops that would eventually become part of the Ramcke Brigade and fight at Alamein.
		Rommel had the battalion available for the Operation Venezia, the offensive that would become known as the Battle of Gazala and is featured in our new game of desert combat.
	www.avalanchepress.com /AirborneGazala.php (510 words)

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		The Battle of Gazala, in June, forced the Commonwealth forces to fall back into Egypt, leaving a garrison at Tobruk, as before.
		Rommel pressed on, and the first battle of El Alamein was fought in July.
		The second battle of El Alamein began in October.
	www.the-strategist.net /RD/scenarii/display_scenario.php?Id=45 (375 words)

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