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The Rats Of Tobruk

  • Britain declares war on Germany, Australia added to the war.

  • Period: to

    WWII

  • Australian troops beseiged Tobruk from the Italians

  • Rommel arrives in Tripoli with orders of attacking Tobruk

  • One of Hitlers best generals, Erwin Rommel with his army, came to the aid of their Italian troops.

  • Germans take Benghazi

  • A German column crosses the desert to reach the sea at Derna

  • German and Italian forces attacked Tobruk

  • German and Italian forces attacked Tobruk

  • General Claude Auchinleck launched Operation Crusader, which succeeded in lifting the siege by the end of that month

  • Tobruk War lifted

  • Rommel decided to attack Tobruk again, and the German-Italian army took control

  • End of WWII with the defeat of Nazi Germnay and Imperial Japan