The Action at Bir el Gubi (December 1941) was fought near Bir el Gubi, Libya, between 3 and 7 December 1941, between Italian (later reinforced by German...

There were two military actions at Bir el Gubi in World War II, both fought in late 1941 during Operation Crusader. These occurred in North Africa, in...

22nd Guards Brigade. By 3 December, the 11th Indian Infantry Brigade was in action against a strongpoint near Bir el Gubi, about 25 mi (40 km) south...

Canal. However, the Axis forces were too far from their base at Tripoli in Libya to remain at El Alamein indefinitely, which led both sides to accumulate...

The action at Mechili was an engagement between units of the British 7th Armoured Division of the Western Desert Force and Italian forces of the 10th...

Action at Bir el Gubi November 19 - December 1: Battle of Sidi Rezegh November 21 – December 7: Second Battle of Tobruk November 21: Battle of Bir el...

The Battle of Alam el Halfa took place between 30 August and 5 September 1942 south of El Alamein during the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World...

German-occupied Europe. The United States officially entered the war in December 1941 and began direct military assistance in North Africa on 11 May 1942...

at about 15.30 hours "Enemy tanks penetrated south of Ariete. Ariete now encircled. Location 5 km north-west Bir el Abd. Ariete tanks still in action"...

but work on boxes at Point 171 4.0 mi (6.4 km) south-east of Bir Hakeim and Bir el Gubi did not begin until 25 May. Churchill pressed Auchinleck to attack...

success with the M13 in the action at Bir el Gubi against the Crusader tanks of the British 22nd Armoured Brigade. In April 1941, at the time of the arrival...

December 1940 – 9 February 1941) and trapped the remnants at Beda Fomm. On 22 January 1941, Tobruk's Italian garrison surrendered. But in early 1941,...

during the British Operation Crusader, fighting battles at Bir el Gubi on 19 November and 4-7 December and for Point 175 before retreating West. As the Ariete...

Division attacked frontally and the 7th Armoured Division attacked inland at Bir el Auera. The outflanking move failed with the loss of 18 tanks and the Panzerarmee...

On 18 November 1941, the British launched Operation Crusader to relieve Tobruk. On 19 November 1941, the Ariete clashed at Bir el Gubi with the British...

the motorized 7th Armoured - were forced to retreat to Bir-el-Gubi and to The El-Adem, leaving Bir-Hakeim and the Free French Forces to fight the full brunt...

Battle of Bir Hakeim: May–June 1942 First Battle of El Alamein: July 1942 Battle of Alam el Halfa: August–September 1942 Second Battle of El Alamein: October–November...

to be transported from outside. The area between Sollum, Maddalena, Bir el Gubi and Tobruk is larger than East Anglia and except near the coast, has...

The Battle of El Agheila was a brief engagement of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. It took place in December 1942 between Allied...

Sub-sector A, from the sea to Bir Junes to block the road from Bardia, with four strong points Sub-sector B, to block the road from El Adem, with two strong points...

March 1941, the Italian garrison of 11 officers, 18 NCOs and 273 Libyan soldiers (12, 47 and 273, according to French sources) surrendered El Tag and...

to disengage from the Ariete at Bir el Gubi and to advance in a night march, north  – in support of the 5th Brigade at Sidi Regez, being relieved by...

to Bir el Khireigat, initially followed by two German tanks, one of which withdrew after the other was destroyed. The regiment arrived at Bir el Khireigat...

Tobruk, west to Bir el Gubi and south to Giarabub. Within a week, the 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own) had seized Fort Capuzzo and at an ambush east...

Operation Battleaxe (15–17 June 1941) was a British Army offensive during the Second World War to raise the Siege of Tobruk and re-capture eastern Cyrenaica...

moved to a base at Jalo oasis, about 140 miles (230 km) to the south-south-east of Ajdabiya. The last operations of 1941 were in December, when the LRDG...

Reconnaissance Grouping of the Maneuver Army Corps. On 4–7 December 1941 the group fought the Action at Bir el Gubi against the 11th Indian Infantry Brigade and parts...

sent to assist 11th Indian Bde attacking the Italian Ariete Division at Bir el Gubi. A mixed German column arrived to aid the Italians, and 9th RB came...

fighting battles at Bir el Gubi on 19 November and 4-7 December and for Point 175 before retreating West. The VII Tank Battalion was disbanded at the end of...

coast between Bardia and Tobruk, west to Bir el Gubi and south to Giarabub. Italian reinforcements then arrived at the frontier, began to reconnoitre, improved...