✦ History

Battle of Gazala

May 26 – June 21, 1942

Result Axis victory

Rommel's Axis army defeated the British Eighth Army at the Gazala line in Libya. The Axis then took Tobruk and advanced into Egypt.

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Battles 1

May 26 – June 11, 1942
Battle of Bir Hakeim Bir Hakeim Erwin Rommel, Walther Nehring, Dimitri Amilakhvari

Key commanders

Allies 6

Willoughby Norrie, 1st Baron Norrie military commander Claude Auchinleck military commander Neil Ritchie military commander William Gott military commander Dimitri Amilakhvari military commander Marie-Pierre Kœnig military commander

Axis 6

Erwin Rommel military commander Albert Kesselring military commander Walther Nehring military commander Ludwig Crüwell military commander Ettore Baldassarre military commander Ettore Bastico military commander