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    The Battle of Point 175 was a military engagement of the Western Desert Campaign that took place during Operation Crusader from 29 November to 1 December...
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  • November 1941 Battle of Point 175: November–December 1941 Second Action at Bir el Gubi: December 1941 Battle of Gazala: May–June 1942 Battle of Bir Hakeim:...
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    The Battle of Kasserine Pass took place from 18-24 February 1943 at Kasserine Pass, a 2-mile-wide (3.2 km) gap in the Grand Dorsal chain of the Atlas...
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    reconnoitring that morning. In the afternoon, to the east of Sidi Rezegh, at the Action at Point 175, elements of Ariete overran the 21st New Zealand Battalion....
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    campaign (also known as the Battle of Tunisia) was a series of battles that took place in Tunisia during the North African campaign of the Second World War,...
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    ISBN 978-2-909675-75-6. Howe 1993, pp. 97, 102. Rohwer & Hummelchen 1992, p. 175 "Frederick Thornton Peters – the Canadian Virtual War Memorial – Veterans...
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    The Battle of El Guettar took place during the Tunisia Campaign of World War II, fought between elements of the Army Group Africa under General Hans-Jürgen...
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    prevent an Axis defeat. Battles for control of Libya and Egypt followed, with advances and retreats until the Second Battle of El Alamein in October 1942...
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    The Battle of the Mareth Line or the Battle of Mareth was an attack in the Second World War by the British Eighth Army (led by General Bernard Montgomery)...
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    Operations Vulcan and Strike (category Military history of Tunis)
    command of IX Corps to make the breakthrough. For the battle IX Corps was reinforced with veteran units of the British Eighth Army – 7th Armoured Division (commanded...
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