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    The Raid on Bardia was an amphibious landing at the coastal town of Bardia in North Africa by British Commandos over the night of 19/20 April 1941 during...
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    prisoner of war camps. He was replaced by Mayne as commander of the SAS. Raid on Bardia Operation Caravan Long Range Desert Group Desert warfare List of North...
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    Open Letter to the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster" 1941: "Commando Raid on Bardia" 1946: "Fan Fare" (Life, 8 April 1946) 1946: "What to do with the Upper...
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    Compass pursued the retreating Italian forces. In January, the small port at Bardia was taken, soon followed by the seizure of the fortified port of Tobruk...
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    frontier from Giarabub to Sidi Omar and XXI Corps from Sidi Omar to the coast, Bardia and Tobruk. The XXII Corps moved south-west of Tobruk to act as a counter-attack...
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    The Battle of Bardia was fought between 3 and 5 January 1941, as part of Operation Compass, the first British military operation of the Western Desert...
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    Operation Jubilee or the Dieppe Raid (19 August 1942) was a disastrous Allied amphibious attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe in northern France...
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  • invasion of Rhodes, which was later cancelled. This was followed by the raid on Bardia on 19 April 1941, which was a fiasco later publicised by Evelyn Waugh...
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    The St Nazaire Raid or Operation Chariot was a British amphibious attack on the heavily defended Normandie dry dock at St Nazaire in German-occupied France...
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    London: Hamilton. OCLC 67441147. Stevens, Major-General W. G. (1962). Bardia to Enfidaville. The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World...
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  • unsuccessful raid on Bardia, but on 27 May 1941, after a previously unsuccessful landing attempt two days earlier, a detachment landed on Crete with 'A'...
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    Operation Compass (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    by the increased use of explosive bullets by the Italians. (On 14 December, a raid on Bardia by nine Blenheims cost one aircraft shot down and seven damaged...
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    Battle of Kasserine Pass (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    Hans-Jürgen von Arnim, reached the Allied positions on the eastern foot of the Atlas Mountains on January 30. The 21st Panzer Division met French troops...
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  • Operation Reservist (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    Compass Fort Capuzzo Nibeiwa Sidi Barrani Bardia Mechili Beda Fomm Kufra Giarabub Sonnenblume Tobruk Raid on Bardia Twin Pimples Brevity Skorpion Battleaxe...
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    British Commando operations during the Second World War (category World War II British Commando raids)
    Alexandria and three days later they received orders to carry out a raid on Bardia and another on Bomba. The attacks had to be abandoned, however, due to high...
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    coastal plain. Another operation by the Rangers raided an Italian position and took 200 prisoners on the night of 20 March, scaling a sheer cliff and...
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    Operation Crusader (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    captured Bardia on 2 January 1942, Sollum on 12 January and the fortified Halfaya position on 17 January, taking about 13,800 prisoners. On 21 January...
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    Operation Torch (category Commons link is on Wikidata)
    conducted raids in 1943 along a 1,600 miles (2,600 km) path from Lake Chad to Tripoli and joined with General Bernard Montgomery's British Eighth Army on 25...
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    The Battle of Port Lyautey began on 8 November 1942 for the city of Port Lyautey, today known as Kenitra, in French Morocco. The battle ended with its...
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    Operations Vulcan and Strike (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    against German units in well-prepared and dug-in defences. In the advance on Tunis, the British 4th Infantry Division (part of British IX Corps, ) was...
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    as the Måløy Raid, was a British Combined Operations raid during World War II against German positions on the island of Vågsøy, Norway, on 27 December...
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    Tunisian campaign (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    as it fell back to Mersa Matruh (Matruh), then began Operation Compass, a raid and counter-attack into Libya. The 10th Army was destroyed and the WDF occupied...
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    Operation Blackstone (category Articles missing coordinates without coordinates on Wikidata)
    carried out by the 47th Infantry Regiment of the U.S. Army and took place on the morning of 8 November 1942 as part of a larger operation to capture Casablanca...
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  • Operation Terminal (category Articles missing coordinates without coordinates on Wikidata)
    least of refusing to fire on the attackers. However the Vichy forces opened fire on the ships, damaging them heavily. At 4.00 am on the morning of 8 November...
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    Alexandria was a base of warships and supply ships in Egypt. In the 1941 raid on Alexandria Italian Navy divers attacked two Royal Navy battleships with...
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    Landing Craft Assault (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    at the time) in their raid on Bardia in April. The objective was to silence a coastal defence battery atop 300 ft high cliffs on a rocky coast. Here the...
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  • with No 7 Commando for North Africa, where he was captured during the raid on Bardia in 1941. He was handed over to the Italians and transferred to Naples...
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    Naval Battle of Casablanca (category Articles missing coordinates with coordinates on Wikidata)
    diversionary raid for a major landing in Algeria; and Germany regarded the surrender of six Moroccan divisions to a small commando raiding force as a clear...
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    1942 the Heinkel raided the Free French–controlled Fort Lamy (now N'Djamena) in the Chad region of French Equatorial Africa. The raid against a target...
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  • Battle of Sedjenane (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    Sedjenane is a town in northern Tunisia, on the railway line to Mateur and the port of Bizerta. The Battle of Sedjenane was fought during World War II...
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