The Attack on Nibeiwa took place on 9 December 1940 near Nibeiwa, Egypt, when the Italian fortified camp held by the Maletti Group, the armoured force...

in Eastern Cyrenaica, before the war but after being routed at the Attack on Nibeiwa, the Battle of Sidi Barrani and the Battle of Bardia the Italian 10th...

the British Operation Compass, which had begun 9 December with the Attack on Nibeiwa. At the beginning of the offensive, the Tenth Army consisted of four...

Late on 8 December, an Italian reconnaissance aircrew reported that attack on Maktila and Nibeiwa was imminent but Maletti was not informed. On 9 December...

Compass: the I Tank Battalion "M" was destroyed in Egypt during the Attack on Nibeiwa, while the II Tank Battalion "M" was lost in the fall of Tobruk. The...

were the II Tank Battalion M11/39 during an early morning surprise Attack on Nibeiwa and the IX Tank Battalion L in the early afternoon of the same day...

Gubi on 19 November 1941, during Operation Crusader. In 2003, Ian Walker described the loss of the Ragruppamento Maletti in the Attack on Nibeiwa, the...

British Attack on Nibeiwa. On 13 December 1940, the V Tank Battalion M13/40 embarked in Naples and sailed for Libya. The battalion was assigned on 10 January...

fortified positions near Sidi Barrani. On 9 December 1940, Maletti was killed in action at the fortified Nibeiwa Camp when British forces counterattacked...

through the Sofafi–Nibeiwa gap. An Indian brigade and Infantry tanks (I tanks) of 7th Royal Tank Regiment (7th RTR) would attack Nibeiwa from the west, as...

of Egypt in 1940 and reached Sidi Barrani on 16 September. The group was destroyed at the Nibeiwa camp on 9 December, during Operation Compass, a British...

overrun, and they were attacked by German troops with heavy losses. On February 2, the 1st Armored Division was ordered to end its attacks and concentrate to...

On 19 March 1943, Operation Pugilist, the first British attack, established a bridgehead but a break-out attempt was defeated by Axis counter-attacks...

4th Armoured and 7th Motor Brigades, but the 21st Panzer were ordered on to attack Minqar Qaim. Rommel ordered 90th Light to resume its advance, requiring...

threaten Tunis from the south. The main attack was forestalled by an Axis counter-attack on 1 December and the attack by Blade Force did not take place; the...

dug in on hills to the east or retreated back to the German headquarters at Gabès. On 19 March, the British 8th Army launched their attack on the Mareth...

Sahariana, was killed as were two Libyan soldiers. Leclerc pressed on with his attack, even though the Italians had captured a copy of his plans from Major...

which attacks on fortified positions had been practised, the troops not being told that the positions were replicas of the Italian camps at Nibeiwa and...

M11/39 tanks) LXI Tank Battalion "L" (L3/35 tankettes) Maletti Group (Nibeiwa) Mixed Tank Battalion (1x M11/39 company, 1x L3/35 company) XXI Corps,...

main barracks, destroying 16 aircraft and damaging seven more. In the attack on the barracks, the LRDG lost four men and two vehicles. Near Zaptié the...

early on 9 December. The 4th Indian Division and the 7th Royal Tank Regiment (7th RTR) attacked Nibeiwa at dawn and overran the camp, then moved on Tummar...

some of the operations, the Long Range Desert Group was to carry out the attack on the Italians at Barce, particularly the airfield there. To reach Barce...

A British Special Air Service unit commanded by Major David Stirling attacked a German-held airfield in Egypt during the Western Desert Campaign of Second...

with the Battle of Marmarica (Battle of the camps) Indian forces capture Nibeiwa with cover from British artillery British tanks and Indian troops overrun...

Operation Compass December 8: Battle of the Camps December 9: Battle of Nibeiwa December 10: Third Battle of Fort Capuzzo December 20–21 March 1941: Siege...

guns, remaining in their defensive positions on the ridge. When Axis attacks on the ridge failed and short on supplies, Rommel ordered a withdrawal. The...

at Nibeiwa but by 16.00 Tummar West had been overrun, except for the extreme north-east corner. The British tanks then shifted their point of attack to...

repelled the attack on the night 15–16 September. Captain Preston John Hurman RASC commanding a company of SDF, discusses the approach the attack and withdrawal...

regiment attacked and destroyed the Italian "Maletti Group" at the Nibeiwa Camp. The 7th RTR also supported the attack of the 11th Brigade on Italian positions...

group attacked Sidi Bou Zid from the south. Facing the attack was the II US Corps under Major General Lloyd Fredendall. In a few days, the Axis attack forced...