• The Siege of Giarabub (now Jaghbub) in Libya, was an engagement between Commonwealth and Italian forces, during the Western Desert Campaign of the Second...
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    Frontier Wire (Libya) (category World War II sites of Fascist Italy)
    Litoranea Libica. The Siege of Giarabub (now Jaghbub) in Libya, took place between the WDF and the Italian garrison. In the aftermath of Operazione E, the...
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    Operation Sonnenblume (category Siege of Tobruk)
    Major-General Michael Gambier-Parry. The Siege of Giarabub (now Jaghbub), took place in the aftermath of the defeat of the 10th Army. The fortified Italian...
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    included the Siege of Giarabub (now Jaghbub), the battle of Kufra and the raid on Murzuk, all in 1941. The Calanshio Sand Sea is the site of the missing...
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    Salvatore Castagna (category Recipients of the Silver Medal of Military Valor)
    the siege of Giarabub. After the war he became a general in the postwar Italian Army. Salvatore Castagna was born in Caltagirone, in the province of Catania...
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  • World War II Siege of Lille (1940) – World War II Siege of Malta (1940–1943) – World War II Siege of Giarabub (1940–1941) – World War II Siege of Saïo (1941)...
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  • 1941: Siege of Giarabub Operation Compass continued January 3–5: First Battle of Bardia January 9–26: First Battle of Tobruk January 25: First Battle of Mechili...
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    Doris Duranti. The film was a propaganda work which portrayed the Siege of Giarabub (1940–41) during the Second World War, in which Italian troops defended...
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    Jaghbub (redirect from Giarabub)
    (Italian: Giarabub) is a remote desert village in the Al Jaghbub Oasis in the eastern Libyan Desert. It is actually closer to the Egyptian town of Siwa than...
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    Jack French (category Australian World War II recipients of the Victoria Cross)
    part of the 7th Division. In March 1941, the 2/9th took part in their first combat action, successfully capturing the Italian fort of Giarabub. The battalion...
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  • This is a list of fictional feature films or miniseries which feature events of World War II in the narrative. There is a separate list of World War II...
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    150 mi (240 km) inland marked the southern limit of the desert, which was at its widest at Giarabub and Siwa; in British parlance, the Western Desert...
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  • Maurice Fergusson (category Australian military personnel of World War I)
    from February 1940, Fergusson was wounded on 9 March 1941 at the siege of Giarabub in Libya and returned to Australia in June. He was awarded the Distinguished...
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    7th Division (Australia) (category Infantry divisions of Australia)
    Egypt before the 18th Brigade was sent to capture an Italian position at Giarabub. The main assault was undertaken by the 2/9th Battalion on 21 March, although...
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    Fort Capuzzo (category Land battles of World War II involving the United Kingdom)
    the British patrolled to the north, south and west and began the Siege of Giarabub. The Italian 10th Army concentrated in the area from Bardia to Tobruk...
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    Primavalle fire (category Years of Lead (Italy))
    time of the arson attack. See Pottere Operaio (1973). "Giarabub" was an MSI section named in honour of the Italians who fought in the siege of Giarabub during...
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    begin the Siege of Giarabub. The British crossed into Libya that night, exchanged fire with Italian troops at Sidi Omar and discovered that some of them were...
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    George Wootten (category Australian Companions of the Order of the Bath)
    campaign, including the siege of Tobruk. For his services in the war so far, he was awarded a Bar to his DSO. Following the outbreak of war with Japan, the...
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  • heavyweight boxing champion James J. Corbett Giarabub (1942) – Italian propaganda war film portraying the Siege of Giarabub during the Second World War, in which...
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  • Born: Kenji Kimihara, long-distance runner, in Kitakyushu, Japan The Siege of Giarabub ended in Allied victory. Hungarian Foreign Minister László Bárdossy...
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    The British capture of Tobruk was a battle fought between 21 and 22 January 1941, as part of Operation Compass, the first offensive of the Western Desert...
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    Axis forces had conducted the Siege of Tobruk for eight months in 1941 before its defenders, who had become an emblem of resistance, were relieved in December...
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    garrisons held Giarabub 150 mi (240 km) south of Sollum, Kufra Oasis, Jalo at the west end of the Great Sand Sea and Murzuk, 500 mi (800 km) south of Tripoli...
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    is a list of World War II battles encompassing land, naval, and air engagements as well as campaigns, operations, defensive lines and sieges. Campaigns...
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    Operation Acrobat (category Cancelled military operations of World War II)
    January 1942 by the Chiefs of Staff and representatives of Middle East Command (General Sir Claude Auchinleck). The Chief of the Imperial General Staff...
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    the Siege of Tobruk and re-occupy Cyrenaica. On 18 November 1941, the Eighth Army began a surprise attack. From 18 to 22 November, the dispersal of British...
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  • Operation Bigamy (category Land battles of World War II involving the United Kingdom)
    World War by the Special Air Service in September 1942 under the command of Lieutenant Colonel David Stirling and supported by the Long Range Desert Group...
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  • of 89. Il cavaliere senza nome (1941) Girl of the Golden West (1942) Il leone di Damasco (1942) Giarabub (1942) - Un giocatore di carte Redenzione (1943)...
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    afternoon, the biggest air attack of the siege, a raid by 100 Stukas dropped 130 long tons (130 t) of bombs. The last rounds of ammunition were issued and bodies...
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    miles (240 km) inland marks the southern limit of the desert at its widest points at Jaghbub (Giarabub) and Siwa Oasis; in British parlance, Western Desert...
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