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On 1 April, Rommel sent two columns to capture Mersa Brega, with Panzer Regiment 5, Machine-Gun Battalion 8, Reconnaissance Unit 3 and anti-tank guns and artillery moving along the Via Balbia as Machine-Gun Battalion 2 and some anti-tank guns made an outflanking move through the desert to the south. The British withdrew from Mersa Brega ...
Brega / ˈ b r eɪ ɡ ə /, also known as Mersa Brega or Marsa al-Brega (Arabic: مرسى البريقة Marsā al Burayqah, i.e. "Brega Seaport"), is a complex of several smaller towns, industry installations and education establishments situated in Libya on the Gulf of Sidra, the most southerly point of the Mediterranean Sea.
Men of 9th Rifle Brigade in their carrier watch the destruction of a supply dump at Hamra during the retreat to El Alamein. After the Battle of Mersa Matruh in late June Eighth Army withdrew to El Alamein. C Company was ordered to defend the main road a few miles west of Dabaa to cover the evacuation of that town.
After a day of fierce fighting on 31 March, the Germans captured Mersa El Brega. [116] Splitting his force into three groups, Rommel resumed the advance on 3 April. Benghazi fell that night as the British pulled out of the city. [117] [118] Gariboldi, who had ordered Rommel to stay in Mersa El Brega, was furious. Rommel was equally forceful in ...
A pirate-themed Battle Royale game mode called Plunderstorm was released with patch 10.2.6. Players play separate characters specifically for Plunderstorm, rather than their usual characters. 2024: Sonic Rumble: Sega, Sonic Team, Rovio Entertainment: Sega Android, iOS Third-person TBA: Yes A Sonic the Hedgehog battle royale game. [14]
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Comando Supremo in Rome and Oberkommando der Wehrmacht in Berlin took an optimistic view of the situation and Comando Supremo chose the Mersa-el-Brega–El Agheila position as the terminus of the retreat, despite the position having a front 110 mi (180 km) long, strong points up to 5 mi (8.0 km) apart, too far for mutual support and being ...
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