✦ History

Operation Crusader

November 18 – December 30, 1941

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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Battles 3

November 19, 1941
Action at Bir el Gubi (November 1941) Italian victory
November 29 – December 1, 1941
Battle of Point 175 Italian victory Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg
December 4–7, 1941
Action at Bir el Gubi (December 1941) Axis victory Willoughby Norrie, 1st Baron Norrie, Ludwig Crüwell

Key commanders

UK 6

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 Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg military commander

Kingdom of Italy 4

Erwin Rommel military commander Gastone Gambara military commander Ludwig Crüwell military commander Ettore Bastico military commander