✦ History

Part of North African campaign

Operation Crusader

November 18 – December 30, 1941 · Egypt

Result Allied victory

The British Eighth Army attacked Axis forces in Libya and relieved the siege of Tobruk. Rommel retreated to El Agheila.

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UK

Kingdom of Italy

United Kingdom
British Raj
New Zealand
Union of South Africa
Australia
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Italy
Germany
Willoughby Norrie, 1st Baron Norrie military commander Claude Auchinleck military commander Alan Cunningham military commander Alfred Reade Godwin-Austen military commander Neil Ritchie military commander
Erwin Rommel military commander Gastone Gambara military commander Ludwig Crüwell military commander Ettore Bastico military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
118,000
Casualties
17,700
Killed
2,900
Wounded
7,300
Missing
7,500
Tanks
738
Aircraft
724

Units

1st Army Tank Brigade (United Kingdom) 3rd Carpathian Rifle Division 70th Infantry Division (United Kingdom)
Afrika Korps 101st Motorized Division "Trieste" 132nd Armored Division "Ariete" 17th Infantry Division "Pavia" 55th Infantry Division "Savona"

Battles 3