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	Western Desert Campaign - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Western Desert Campaign was the primary early theatre of the North African Campaign of World War II.
		The Allied Western Desert Force, numbering around 30,000 men, including portions of the Indian 4th Division and the British 7th Armoured Division launched the counter-attack Operation Compass on 9 December.
		After the Empire of Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, much of the Indian and Australian forces were withdrawn from the Western Desert to their respective homelands, while 7th Armoured Division was withdrawn and British 7th Armoured Brigade participated in the defense of Burma.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Western_Desert_Campaign (1301 words)

	North African Campaign - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Allies used the campaign as a step towards a second front against the Axis powers in Fortress Europe, and it helped to ease Axis pressure on the Russian front.
		The Axis had planned to follow a successful campaign in North Africa with a strike north to the rich oil fields of the Middle East.
		After victory in the North African Campaign, the stage was set for the Italian Campaign to begin.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/North_African_Campaign (1172 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Tobruk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This was substantially important due to the importance of supplies in a desert warfare campaign.
		Attackers from the east that had secured Tobruk may then be able to advance through the desert to Benghazi, cutting off all enemy troops along the coast, such as at Derna.
		This was significant due to the importance of air power in desert warfare as the Gulf War might attest to.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Tobruk (1058 words)

	Combat Mission: Afrika Korps Bibliography Page
		The German Afrika Korps was an outstanding military organization that witnessed both the heights of glory and the depths of defeat in the Western Desert campaign.
		PANZER BATTLES is a vivid account of the major campaigns of that war, especially the legendary desert battles fought by Rommel, who found the desert to be the perfect terrain in which to wage almost purely theoretical armored warfare with large-scale tank formations.
		This is the story of this backwater campaign, a series of battles skillfully staged by the Germans and so botched by the Allies that their victory was achieved only as a result of German exhaustion.
	www.battlefront.com /products/cmak/biblio.html (3364 words)

	Panzer General 2: user campaigns and links - BWDIC v2.1
		The campaign contains 30 scenarios; the first 24 scenarios follow the North African campaign (from 12/1940 to 05/1943), the rest of the scenarios follow the Italian campaign and end in 04/1945.
		If you have read the review of v1.0 this campaign on Builders Paradise you should know that this is a completely redesigned, extended and improved version of the campaign, gets rid of all problems (I hope...) and is intense in every scenario from start to end.
		The file names for the campaign are the same for each version, so you can only have one version installed at a time.
	www.wargamer.com /pg2campaigns/steve/pg2-bwdic3.htm (370 words)

	Desert Battle — www.greenwood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		That opening chapter is followed by an examination of deserts as a physical context for battle--the nature of the environment and who fights in deserts and why.
		Napoleon Bonaparte's campaign in Egypt, 1798-1799, is discussed in the context of desert campaigns.
		Watson's original conclusions about the nature of desert battle and the constants that determine the outcome of battles in that hostile environment are surprising and illuminating.
	www.greenwood.com /catalog/C4686.aspx (279 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Special forces pursue their secret campaign in western desert
		Hidden from the television cameras, a secret war is being fought in the desert of western Iraq by hundreds of British, American and Australian special forces, and it has turned out to be the unsung success of the conflict.
		There is almost no shelter in the desert, and the only living things are the remnants of Iraqi forces, marauding deserters looking for loot, Bedouin of uncertain loyalty, and bandits who operated along the Baghdad-Amman highway even when Saddam Hussein was in full control of the country.
		It is understood that Israeli commandos were in the Iraqi desert before the start of the conflict - it is not clear how they got there - but the Americans insisted that the danger of "friendly fire" incidents was too great and they withdrew.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/03/29/war429.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/03/29/ixnewstop.html (733 words)

	Western Sahara Campaign UK
		Western Sahara is a mere 80 miles from the Canary Islands (see map), but life here is no holiday for the Saharawi people.
		Western Sahara is the last colonised country left in Africa.
		In the desert refugee camps, schools, hospitals, workshops and even gardens have been created in one of the most inhospitable environments on earth as the Saharawis struggle to develop their society against the odds.
	wsc.members.gn.apc.org (398 words)

	Lasse Jensen´s look at the British Western Desert Campaign 1940-42 campaign
		This campaign consists of battles by British Commonwealth and other Allied forces in the Western Desert from 1940 to 1942 against the Italian and German armies.
		The campaign begins in December 1940 (Operation Compass) and continues until the conclusion of the Second Battle of El Alamein in November 1942 (Operations Lightfoot and Supercharge).
		This campaign contains units from Australia, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, New Zealand, Poland, South Africa, UK and USA and consists of 16 battles fought over a period of 2 years and is not linear, although brilliant victories will get you through all the battles.
	panzergeneral.strategyplanet.gamespy.com /PG2camp/pg2camp_desert.html (4098 words)

	[No title]
		Desert Warfare: Being the Chronicle of the Eastern Soudan Campaign.
		Wilson, Charles W. From Korti to Kartum: A Journal of the Desert March from Korti to Gubat and the Ascent of the Nile in General Gordon's Steamers.
		See index Desert Warfare p.6 MacArthur, David W. The Road to the Nile: A Story of Travel in the Western Desert and the Army of the Nile.
	www.carlisle.army.mil /usamhi/bibliographies/referencebibliographies/desert/genmisc.doc (2313 words)

	MotorBooks.com - Military > History > General
		Augustus Hervey was born into the wildly eccentric family of the Earls of Bristol, a lineage so different from ordinary folk that it was said there were three sexes: men, women and Herveys.
		A remarkable and gripping account of life in the SAS during the Western Desert campaign....
		As the twentieth century began, China was torn apart by a bloody uprising instigated by the infamous Boxers.
	www.motorbooks.com /Store/Products_1039_Page_2.ncm (544 words)

	Operation DESERT FOX: Effectiveness With Unintended Effects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Noting as well that DESERT FOX was launched to “diminish” Iraq’s ability to threaten its neighbors and the region, Cohen declared that “Saddam’s missile program has been set back by at least a year.” He stated that international sanctions would slow, if not preclude, Iraqi attempts to rebuild the missile-related infrastructure destroyed thus far.
		Arkin was well aware that, during Operation DESERT STORM, CENTCOM planners targeted the same kind of leadership and command and control facilities with the aim of isolating and incapacitating the regime’s leaders as part of an effort to create civil unrest or even collapse.
		Yet when DESERT FOX ended a mere 70 hours after it began, Saddam remained firmly in power—minus some of his infrastructure—and the Iraqi dictator could claim to his people and to the world that once again, he had withstood an onslaught from the most powerful form of America’s and the West’s armed might—airpower.
	www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/cc/conversino.html (6920 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Home News \| Deadly legacy
		In events leading up to the 1942 Battle of Al-Alamein, 19.7 million land-mines were planted in the Western Desert by Britain, Germany and Italy.
		According to figures released by the armed forces, the wars in the Western Desert and the Sinai Peninsula have left behind 33.7 million land-mines planted under 391,000 hectares.
		But no statement was made that Western nations should bear full responsibility for the removal of land-mines they planted in other countries, such as Egypt.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /1999/444/eg4.htm (735 words)

	World War II: North Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This is a classic account of the progress of the 7th Armored Division from the sands of North Africa to the cold of wintery Holland and the mud of a German springtime.
		The Desert Rats was written with official support and with the help of most of the division's senior officers.
		In the deserts of North Africa and the Middle East some of World War II's greatest legends were born as Erwin Rommel the "Desert Fox" led his Afrika Korps against the "Desert Rats" of the British 8th Army led by Bernard Montgomery.
	www.generalstafflibrary.com /page31.html (3299 words)

	Egypt-Libya
		For three years the war in the Western Desert consisted of a series of advances and retreats which came to be known as the "Benghazi Handicap" by the British soldiers who alternated between pursuing and being pursued.
		As they were struggling in the desert, the British were also trying to resupply their garrison at Malta by sea, and they requested American heavy bombers to support that effort.
		The ground support elements of RAF units in the Western Desert were highly mobile and could move rapidly between airfields as the tactical situation dictated.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/brochures/egypt/egypt.htm (6123 words)

	BBC NEWS \| In Depth \| Newsmakers \| The Desert Rats: From Berlin to Basra
		The original desert rat, the jerboa, is a tiny unassuming creature; its namesakes are members of one of the most highly-trained, and lethal, fighting units in the world.
		And the 17,000 Desert Rats, currently serving in the Gulf, are the heirs to a tradition spanning seven decades.
		Part of the division, the 7th Armoured Brigade - from which today's Desert Rats are directly descended - was posted to Burma early in 1942 and fought with distinction in the Middle East and Italy.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/in_depth/uk/2000/newsmakers/2896029.stm (805 words)

	Second World War Books: Books by Subject
		Desert Campaign: Story of the Ninth US Army Air Force in....
		Desert Rats: A Pictorial History of the Western Desert Campaign.
		Desert Sand and Jungle Green: Pictorial History of the 2/43rd...
	www.sonic.net /~bstone/bib/booktd.shtml (2388 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The book begins with a description of how the campaign can best be adapted for war gaming, using tiny 1:300 scale model tanks.
		This is followed by a vividly graphic description of what it was really like to fight in a tank under Russian Front conditions, a concise account of the actual course of the campaign from Operation Barbarossa to the fall of Berlin, and chapters on German and Russian armoured development, organisation and tactics.
		For many readers the most useful section will be that in which practically every tank and vehicle of significance on both sides is described, with performance tables.
	grognard.com /zines/ph/p0206.txt (188 words)

	BATTLEFIELD AIR SUPPORT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		BAI operations clearly have been more useful in their impact upon maneuver land battle; the blitzkrieg, Western Desert campaign, Italian campaign, breakout across France, and epic air-land battles of the Russian front in 1943-45 were essentially campaigns where BAI predominated.
		When the British first began their Western Desert campaign, the typical lag between a support request and the arrival of strike aircraft over the target was two and one-half to three hours.
		During the Normandy campaign, the RAF used Mosquito bombers as night interdictors, bombing under illumination from Mitchell flare ships; as the threat from German night attackers dwindled in 1944-45, the AAF used modified P-61 night fighters for the same purpose.
	www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/apj/2spr90.html (6437 words)

	Special ops on a forgotten front (Western Iraq) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Iraq's inhospitable western desert is the scene of a campaign without the presence of cameras or media pools.
		The western desert is a flat land of compacted sand, sharp flints and pavements of limestone and basalt.
		Despite the landing of Allied troops on the Iraqi side of the western desert, Iraqi troops still control their side of the Jordanian border, an area lined with watch towers and listening posts.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/872660/posts (1324 words)

	British 1st Armoured Division (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Arriving in Egypt on 13 November 1941 it took part in many of the major battles of the later part of the campaign against Rommel including Gazala, Mersa Matruh, 1st El Alamein, 2nd El Alamein, Tebaga Gap, Akarit, El Kourzia and Tunis.
		From the end of the Tunisian campaign the division remained in North Africa until May 1944.
		It then transferred to Italy, fighting one last battle at Coriano before ceasing to be an operational unit on 28 October.
	www.toshare.info /en/British_1st_Armoured_Division.htm (568 words)

	BBC NEWS \| South Asia \| New Indian campaign to save vultures
		Environmental activists in India's western Rajasthan state are mounting a new campaign to save the fast declining population of vultures.
		The campaign sponsored by a clutch of non-government organisations in the state, is due to take off next Wednesday.
		Conservationists say the new campaign is expected to raise public awareness about the importance of saving the vultures population.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/2595347.stm (459 words)

	ABC Western Australia » Ex-Services Contingent - Land Forces (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The 7th Division remained in the Western Desert for only one month before being withdrawn and relocated to their next theatre of operations, against the Vichey French in Syria.
		The Association banner and the Australian Flag are carried by members of 502 Regional Cadet Unit and the Western Australian State Flag is carried because the Regiment is the WA State Infatry Regiment.
		As custodians of the history and the Battle of Honours of every Western Australian Infantry Unit from South Africa in 1899 to the end of World War 2, RWAR truly is the Western Australian Infantry Association.
	www.abc.net.au /wa/anzac/land2.htm (2955 words)

	The Western Native Trout Campaign - Home
		Evolving over millennia through the melting glaciers, great floods and fire that have shaped the western landscape, native trout have survived in an unmatched variety of habitats.
		From the cold alpine streams of the northern Rockies to the alkaline waters of Great Basin desert lakes, they are the masters of adaptation.
		The Western Native Trout Campaign is committed to restoring healthy native trout populations by uniting biodiversity, wilderness, and fishing advocates in an action-oriented effort to comprehensively protect native western trout and their habitats.
	www.westerntrout.org (157 words)

	North African Campaign
		The North African Campaign, or Desert War, took place in the North African desert during World War II between 1940 and 1943.
		The early part of the North African Campaign was plagued by a lack of supplies on both sides.
		The Western Desert Campaign, or Libya-Egypt Campaign, began on September 13, 1940, when Italian forces stationed in Libya launched a small invasion into British-held Egypt and set up defensive forts.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1727.html (1044 words)

	Royal Australian Navy Gun Plot Scrap Iron Flotilla Greece
		THE opening of the Western Desert campaign provided another task for the Australian destroyers and the sandy escarpments of the Libyan coast were the scene of operations for the greater part of December, January, February and March.
		Meanwhile the Western Desert campaign had developed rapidly and the Australian destroyers were kept more than busy along the North African coast.
		British and Imperial forces moved across the Libyan desert to capture Benghazi on 7 February, and the North African coastline became a supply line which had to be maintained in the face of constant submarine and air attacks.
	www.gunplot.net /matapan/scrapironflott6.html (2769 words)

	Articles - Battle of Normandy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Stalin had been pressing the Western Allies to launch a "second front" since 1942, but Churchill had argued for delay until victory could be assured, preferring to attack Italy and North Africa first.
		The campaign in Normandy is considered by historians to end either at midnight on 24/25 July 1944 (the start of ´´Operation Cobra´´ on the American front) or 25 August 1944 (the advance to the Seine).
		The toehold established at Normandy was vital for the Western Allies (largely the British Commonwealth and the U.S.) to bring the war to the western border of Germany.
	www.topron.com /articles/Battle_of_Normandy (7601 words)

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