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1941

	Tobruk
		Erwin Rommel was forced to abandon his siege of Tobruk on 4th December, and the following month had moved as far west as Archibald Wavell had achieved a year previously.
		British forces under General Leslie Morshead repulsed German attacks on the fortress and on 4th December, 1941, Rommel decided to abandon the siege of Tobruk.
		The British Army recaptured Tobruk on 13th November, 1942, bringing the battle at El Alamein to an end.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWtobruk.htm (800 words)

	Siege of Tobruk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For most of the siege, Tobruk was defended by the Australian 9th Division under General Sir Leslie Morshead.
		Tobruk was the longest siege in British Empire military history, and was the first notable land defeat for a German army in World War II.
		Rommel nonetheless captured Tobruk in a new offensive in 1942 in the Battle of Gazala.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Tobruk (295 words)

	Siege of Tobruk [Australian War Memorial]
		The Royal Navy and the RAN service kept the garrison supplied by means of the "Tobruk ferry" which included the Australian destroyers Napier, Nizam, Nestor and Vendetta.
		The German propagandist Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) derided the troops as the "Rats of Tobruk", a term proudly embraced as an ironic compliment.
		During the siege of Tobruk, Australian ships such as HMAS Parramatta (pictured) shared the task of keeping the vital supply line open and evacuating the wounded.
	www.awm.gov.au /encyclopedia/tobruk (305 words)

	Tobruk - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		It was a fiercely contested objective in World War II (see North Africa, campaigns in).
		Tobruk was first taken by the British on Jan. 22, 1941.
		The port facilities were expanded in the 1960s to link the city to nearby oil fields.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-tobruk.html (262 words)

	Combined Arms Research Library
		The Tobruk garrison demonstrated that the hitherto successful German blitzkrieg tactics could be defeated by resolute men who displayed courage and had the tactical and technical ability to coordinate and maximize the capabilities of their weapons and equipment in the defense.
		At the beginning of the siege, the anti-aircraft artillery in Tobruk consisted of sixteen mobile 7-inch guns (heavy) in action and eight unmounted guns not yet brought into action; five mobile and twelve static 40-mm Bofors (of which six static guns were not in action); and forty-two captured 20-mm Italian Bredos.
		The battle for Tobruk is a set piece for light infantry supported by artillery, armor, and antitank weapons in the defense against a heavier armored force.
	www-cgsc.army.mil /carl/resources/csi/miller/miller.asp (15927 words)

	Tobruk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		There is a first edition of this in a tan box with a print run of only 500.
		Tobruk takes you right into the action, giving you a turret-eye view of armored combat as it really was.
		Every important German, British, Italian and American weapon that fought in the Western Desert during the crucial 1942 campaign is at your command.
	members.aol.com /wergames/ahtobruk.htm (175 words)

	RNZRSA - RSA Review - Alamein - a Commonwealth victory
		At Alamein the line was stabilised in fierce and costly battles marked by successful infantry night attacks by the 8th Army, but domination of the battlefield by the enemy armour and 88mm anti-tank guns continued.
		In the hard fought 12-day battle, the decisive victory of the Commonwealth was won, demonstrating the ability of Britain and the independent nations of the Commonwealth to become the powerful co-ordinated combination which turned back finally the tide of conquest.
		With the fate of the Battle of Alamein still in doubt, the 2nd New Zealand Division and the British infantry and armour under General Freyberg's command shared in "the decisive blow" carrying out the infantry and artillery attack, and the assault by the armour which reached the enemy anti-tank gun line.
	www.rsa.org.nz /review/art2002october/article_1b.html (951 words)

	Tobruk - Book Reviews - Books - Entertainment - theage.com.au
		Tobruk will be a welcome read for those comparative few "Rats" who were there, and FitzSimons has effectively resurrected a long and largely overlooked battle for a new Australian generation.
		The Battle of Tobruk involved 15,000 Australians supported by British artillery, against the might and confidence of the German Afrika Korps under the command of Rommel, "the Desert Fox".
		It is the humanity of Morshead and the selflessness that he showed repeatedly in the heat of battle that won him something close to reverence from his men.
	www.theage.com.au /news/book-reviews/tobruk/2006/07/21/1153166567945.html (899 words)

	Royal Australian Navy Gun Plot The Spud Run
		The eight month long siege of Tobruk in 1941, which saw the name 'Rats of Tobruk' (first coined by Radio Berlin as a contemptuous one) take a proud place in Australian history was one of the greatest stories of bravery and endurance against overwhelming odds in the history of modern warfare.
		At the beginning he thought that the small garrison at Tobruk would not be a problem and would easily be overthrown.
		The Story of the "Rats of Tobruk" has become part of Australian folklore, but not quite as well known is tale of the unique naval battle of Tobruk............
	www.gunplot.net /spudrun/spudrun.htm (350 words)

	Exercise :: Sea Lion :: Background
		HMAS Tobruk is a heavy landing ship, designed to transport, support and deploy Army units and deliver them to the shore.
		Built at Carrington, near Newcastle in New South Wales, Tobruk commissioned in 1981 and is the second ship to bear the name of the famous Second World War battle.
		The first Tobruk was a Battle class destroyer, built in Sydney, which saw service in the Korean War and decommissioned in 1960.
	www.defence.gov.au /sealion/background.htm (479 words)

	CSI Reprint: Battle Report: Alam Halfa
		This whirling battle of tanks continued for nearly 3 weeks, shifting to and fro with repeated turns of fortune, but in the end, Rommel's tank strength was exhausted and he was forced to retreat–right back to his February starting position near Agheila, on the frontier of Tripolitania.
		It may be thought that this telephone battle has not much bearing on a study of the actual battle, but suffice to say that on the day of the battle itself, the blue lines of the enemy's movements–as put on the maps dining the exercise–required little adteration to conform to fact.
		In the pattern of this battle, the air forces could operate the more freely and effectively because of being able to count on all troops within the ring as being "enemy," and thus targets–in contrast to the way that air action is handicapped in a more fluid kind of battle.
	www-cgsc.army.mil /carl/resources/csi/hart/hart.asp (17519 words)

	Tobruk - Book Reviews - Books - Entertainment - theage.com.au (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Tobruk will be a welcome read for those comparative few "Rats" who were there, and FitzSimons has effectively resurrected a long and largely overlooked battle for a new Australian generation.
		The Battle of Tobruk involved 15,000 Australians supported by British artillery, against the might and confidence of the German Afrika Korps under the command of Rommel, "the Desert Fox".
		It is the humanity of Morshead and the selflessness that he showed repeatedly in the heat of battle that won him something close to reverence from his men.
	theage.com.au /news/book-reviews/tobruk/2006/07/21/1153166567945.html (905 words)

	Arise / Projects / Great Battles: Battle of Tobruk
		The games of this series are dedicated to the most famous and important battles of World War II.
		The developments of that period, especially Battle for Tobruk and Battle of El Alamein, are recreated in the game with historical authenticity.
		To recreate the history of Afrika Korps and Allied Forces battles authentically, the original maps of the war period were used at creation of game levels.
	www.arisegames.com /en/projects_tobruk.html (241 words)

	Amazon.com: Tobruk / Movie: Video: Rock Hudson,George Peppard,Nigel Green,Guy Stockwell,Jack Watson,Norman ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The target is a German fuel depot near the Libyan port of Tobruk.
		The point is that in TOBRUK there are an awful lot of armored vehicles loitering somewhere other than the front.
		Tobruk was produced by Roger Corman's brother Gene and features Rock Hudson, George Peppard, and Nigel Green as commandos assigned to destroy the fuel base used by Adolf Hitler's Afrika Korps under Erwin Rommel, who appears briefly at the end played by Curt Lowens.
	www.amazon.com /Tobruk-Movie-Arthur-Hiller/dp/6300181162 (1833 words)

	The Weapons
		The Australians used rifles mostly in the battle for tobruk, but they also stole guns and weapons from the german forces, here are some of the guns used in the battle.
		The.303 Lee Enfield rifle, introduced in 1895, was the main military service rifle of the British Empire and her Commonwealth countries for over 60 years, over this period of time it went through various upgrades and modifications.
		The Australians stole most of the Germans weapons and supplys, witch got the germans mad, The germans put up propaganda trying to show that australians are rats and theives, they also called them rats cause of the way the Australians dug tunnels.
	www.imagingideas.com.au /ratsoftobruk/weapons.html (255 words)

	Tobruk
		In Tobruk, Peter FitzSimons relates the personal histories and stories not only of the men who defended the garrison against the German onslaught but of the Desert Fox, Erwin Rommel, and the powers back in both Berlin and Britain.
		Tobruk comes to life in true FitzSimons style, evoking feelings and emotions of that time as well as the facts.
		Tobruk's strength lies with FitzSimons' cinematic storytelling, with his constant changing lenses from wide-angle to zoom...
	www.vive8.com.au /shop/scditem.asp?ProdID=4758&CatID=29 (275 words)

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		All of these battles are based on historical events, but there is, of course, no claim of actual authenticity.
		In the largest aerial naval battle in history, the US soundly defeated the IJN in two days of heavy fighting, sinking four essentially irreplacable Japanese carriers while only losing one of their own.
		Other than that, it's a naval battle extraordinare; your Battleship is the toughest vehicle in the game, so use it to tear up their fleet.
	www.cheatcc.com /pc/sg/battlefield_1942.txt (17575 words)

	Mediterranean, RN, Fleet, Barham, Cape Bon, Battle, Sirte, George, Cross, ABC, Cunningham, Alexandria, Malta, Convoys, ...
		As for the convoy, all four transports including the renowned "Breconshire" were lost to air attack, two off Malta and two in harbour before much of their cargo could be off-loaded.
		Tobruk was surrounded by the 18th and three days later surrendered.
		In the build-up to the battle, Royal Navy submarines and RAF aircraft, especially those based in Malta, were sinking more than a third of Axis supplies setting out for North Africa.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignsRNMed2.htm (5685 words)

	Education in the desert
		In fact, it was in the fighting at Tobruk that one of those incidents of majestic selflessness occurred which men remember when the terror and filth of battle are forgotten.
		Yet the Battle of Tobruk was no different from any other battle in one respect: The men who fought it were bone-weary by the time it was well under way.
		There were still tens of thousands of Italian troops between Tobruk and Benghazi, but their inability to hold the advance at Bardia or Tobruk suggested that they would not offer any serious resistance farther to the west.
	www.diggerhistory2.info /soldier/page/02-nth-africa.htm (10012 words)

	2/4 Battalion
		It played only a small role at Bardia (3–5 January 1941) but was more active during the battle for Tobruk (21–22 January 1941), and had to fight particularly hard to secure the Wadi Derna (26–30 January).
		In early April 1941, the 2/4th, with the rest of the 6th Division, deployed to Greece to resist the anticipated German invasion.
		It fought a fierce battle at Vevi in northern Greece on 11 and 12 April and then withdrew through a series of rearguard positions until evacuated, by sea, from Megara on 26 April.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-conflicts-periods/ww2/units/2-04bn.htm (514 words)

	Tobruk: The Clash of Armour for ZX Spectrum - MobyGames
		Tobruk: The Clash of Armour for ZX Spectrum - MobyGames
		The battle for Tobruk in May-July 1942 was one of the key battles of the North African front in World War 2.
		Rommel lead the Axis forces to a victory, taking out Allied forces which were gathered to densely mine a strategic defensive area of Libya.
	www.mobygames.com /game/zx-spectrum/tobruk-the-clash-of-armour (268 words)

	Storyline 2203
		This bloody battle from the South Pacific promises to be be an exciting event, with most of the Arena taking part in the contest.
		The beginning of the match was a position battle, with Minty using several one of his advantages in an attempt to gain a tactical advantage.
		A three-way battle of Minty, Milo, and GSK vs two Warriors, plus the remaining matches, had to be postponed as word reached the Warriors that their missing comrades had been found.
	home.earthlink.net /~bigrob60/StarLeague/History/storyline2203.htm (5256 words)

	Digging up a legend \| The Courier-Mail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		However Tobruk and the Australians proved a thorn in the side of a previously unstoppable German war machine that had already used its Panzer tanks and blitzkrieg fighting style to take Poland, Belgium and France.
		In Tobruk, FitzSimons weaves together official accounts with personal stories of lead and fringe players from both sides, such as the asthmatic Jack Edmondson who loved long walks with his mother and the tragic personal journey of father of eight, John Johnson.
		This marriage of the official version and the emotion, like the diary of a "ratbag digger" and itinerant labourer before the war who did not hold back when writing about flying bullets and visits to Cairo brothels, is a creative union.
	www.news.com.au /couriermail/story/0,,19775954-5003424,00.html (881 words)

	The History Place - World War Two in Europe Timeline
		- Tobruk in North Africa falls to the British and Australians.
		- Battle of Kasserine Pass between the U.S. 1st Armored Division and German Panzers in North Africa.
		- 'Battle of the Hedgerows' in Normandy; Soviets capture Minsk.
	www.historyplace.com /worldwar2/timeline/ww2time.htm (1796 words)

	The House of Ice: Erwin Rommel Jr.
		On April 11th, Tobruk- an important port- was enveloped by Rommel and garrisons were set up East of Tobruk to warn of a British relief force.
		The British plan of battle was to let Rommel think he was flanking them in the South while a killing pocket was set up with anti tank guns, artillery, and tanks for his unwitting troops.
		Meanwhile, the battle for Sicily ground on, and the Soviets launched a major counter-attack with rumors of an overwhelming breakthrough which turned out to be exaggerated.
	houseofice.tripod.com /history/rommel.shtml (16771 words)

	The Cauldron
		In June of the same year, there was a long, drawn-out battle around Tobruk as German forces, commanded by ’Desert Fox’ Field Marshal Rommel, tried to surround and capture the port.
		A well-planned British defence held up the German advance and soon much of their armour was short of ammunition and fuel ; as a result an Allied attack was mounted against enemy forces in an area known as The Cauldron, south of Tobruk.
		At one time every sub-unit and battalion headquarters were over-run by German tanks but the men were able to filter back between the enemy groups and so the fighting retreat continued.
	www.army.mod.uk /rhf/regimental_history/the_cauldron.htm (597 words)

	War in North Africa, 1940-1942
		This was the opening battle in a long campaign that would frustrate both the Allied and the Axis.
		Hurricanes over Tobruk: The Pivotal Role of the Hurricane in the Battle for Tobruk, Western Desert, January-June 1941 by Brian Cull
		Rommel's Greatest Victory: The Desert Fox and the Fall of Tobruk, Spring 1942 by Samuel W. Mitcham Jr.
	www.worldwar2database.com /html/africa.htm (814 words)

	Lone Sentry: German 88 MM in the Libyan Battle from WWII Information Bulletin (WWII German Flak 88mm) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Recent cables from American military observers in Cairo and at the front with the Eighth British Army in Libya stress the important role being played by the German 88 MM anti-aircraft gun in the ground phase of the desert battles now in progress.
		In the battle now raging in Libya, Rommel's offensive use of these weapons is of considerable interest.
		For more information on the German 88-mm, see also: "The New 88 and Its Carriages" and The Battle of the Omars: Appendix A.
	www.lonesentry.com /tacticalstudy/index.html (1269 words)

	World History Database of events in day 13th Nov Daily Events
		Defeats the Jacobites led by the Earl of Mar
		Fights an inconclusive battle with the Royalists led by the Duke of Argyll
		Montgomery's forces enter Tobruk which was never again to fall under German control
	www.badley.info /history/1311.day.html (606 words)

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