(SIG) that endeavour to destroy the fuel bunkers of Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel's Panzer Army Africa in Tobruk. The film is loosely based on the British...
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150km 100miles Port of Tobruk. The siege of Tobruk (/təˈbrʊk, toʊ-/) took place between 10 April and 27 November 1941, during the Western Desert campaign...
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Defensive fighting position (section Tobruks)
turret mounted on "Tobruk" at Omaha Beach, June 1944 Tobruk protecting the entrance to the bunker that now houses the Channel Islands Military Museum....
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position for 155mm artillery with bunker storage behind Steps leading to bunker 15m underground Machine gun Tobruk "Les Batteries du Mont-Canisy" [The...
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German bunker complex and command post built during the Second World War and located near Colleville-Montgomery in Normandy, France. The bunker complex...
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not know whether this was intended or accidental. On top of the bunker there is a tobruk, a concrete foxhole where the defenders could station an additional...
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of the Siegfried Line, small concrete "Tobruks" were built along the borders of the occupied area. Those bunkers were mostly dugouts for single soldiers...
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Tobruk, subtitled "Tank Battles in North Africa 1942", is a board wargame published by Avalon Hill in 1975 that simulates tank combat in North Africa during...
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Erwin Rommel (section Siege of Tobruk)
captured by 8 April, except for the port city of Tobruk, which was besieged on 11 April. The siege of Tobruk was not technically a siege, as the defenders...
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Regelbau (category Bunkers)
(German for "standard(ised) construction") were a series of standardised bunker designs built in large numbers by the Germans in the Siegfried Line (‹See...
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and Hammada. The company also operates an oil terminal and a refinery in Tobruk and Sarir. The Sarir field was discovered in the Sirte Basin by BP in 1961...
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includes a Tobruk (Ringstände) position for a captured French tank turret with 3.7 cm gun. At the seaward end of the trench system a small RFO bunker with 3/4/6-Schartenturm...
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took place at Bir Hakeim, an oasis in the Libyan desert south and west of Tobruk, during the Battle of Gazala (26 May – 21 June 1942). The 1st Free French...
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military helicopter belonging to the Libyan National Army crashes near Tobruk, killing all eight people on board, including the Libyan armed forces' commander-in-chief...
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trenches, dams and road barriers were laid out, along with so-called Tobruk bunkers. During the war, bombs fell on Höcherstraße and Glanstraße (streets)...
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in this part of the city as a frontline resistance point. Main bunker of Fort Dąb Tobruk [pl] in the Fort Dąb area The fort's central guardhouse Located...
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Lieutenant Lucas Riggs is stationed at Tobruk as part of the Australian-led Rats of Tobruk garrison during the Siege of Tobruk. After a failed ambush attempt...
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60 cm searchlights, an MG bunker, a 4.7 cm anti tank casemate, a tobruk pit mounted with a French tank turret, a type R633 bunker containing a M19 automatic...
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Eugene Bullard, "The Black Swallow of Death" and Ahmet Ali (Arap Ahmet) The Bunker is evidently a psychological horror film, not a monster movie. "Entertainment...
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Gaddaf al-Dam served as high-ranking military commander, overseer of the Tobruk (and later Cyrenaica) military region, and Special Envoy to Egypt and a...
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Middle East, including serving as part of the garrison of the Libyan port of Tobruk while it was besieged by the Axis forces from April to August 1941. After...
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variously called the "Plan for the North", "Masada on the Carmel", "Haifa-Tobruk", "Haifa-Masada-Musa-Dagh", or "Haifa Stronghold". The planners on the Palmach...
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for Tobruk, so Rommel had to withdraw his armoured units to support the fighting at Tobruk. Despite achieving some tactical successes at Tobruk, the...
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casemates there were ammunition bunkers, defensive mortar pits and Tobruks fitted with machine guns plus a minefield. The bunkers were linked by 700 m (2,300 ft)...
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guns and the use of turrets from obsolete tanks in tobrukstand pill boxes (tobruk pits).: 51 Organisation Todt (OT), formed in 1933, had designed the Siegfried...
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Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh embarked on Britannia for the first time in Tobruk on 1 May 1954. On 20 July 1959, Britannia sailed the newly opened Saint...
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weapon systems and buildings: 14 passive bunkers, four barracks, a belt of 15 "Tobruks" (small stand-alone bunkers, with a hole at the top, usually manned...
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the British pushed them out of Egypt and entered Libya to take Bardia and Tobruk. Even as late as November 1941, German infantry combat reports show the...
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however, the player is tasked with breaking Alllied lines at Tobruk during Siege of Tobruk, before an artillery strike causes another character change...
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Battle of El Alamein El Alamein – The Line of Fire (2002) Tobruk (2008), Czech soldiers in the Tobruk campaign P-51 Dragon Fighter (2014) SAS: Rogue Heroes...
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