Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The first German troops reached Sirte on 15 February, advanced to Nofilia on 18 February and a German raiding party ambushed a British patrol near El Agheila on 24 February. On 24 March, the Axis captured El Agheila and on 31 March attacked 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.
Battle of Brega may refer to: World War II. Battle of Brega (1941), part of the Western Desert Campaign of World War II; Libyan civil war. First Battle of Brega, fought on 2 March 2011; Second Battle of Brega, fought 13 to 15 March 2011; Third Battle of Brega, fought 31 March to 7 April 2011; Battle of Brega–Ajdabiya road, fought 8 April to ...
The battle commenced on 14 July, in the aftermath of the Battle of Brega-Ajdabiya road, which had largely been a long stalemate. The rebels were armed with refurbished and repaired T-72 and T-55 tanks and armoured personnel carriers as well as armed technical trucks.
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 ...
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 forces of the Eighth Army (General Bernard Montgomery) and the Axis forces of the German-Italian Panzer Army (Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel), during the long Axis withdrawal from El Alamein to Tunis.
The Eighth Army reached El Agheila on 15 December and the New Zealand Division was sent to outflank the Mersa Brega line from 14 to 16 December as the 51st (Highland) Division attacked frontally and the 7th Armoured Division attacked inland at Bir el Auera.
The First Battle of Brega [7] was fought during the Libyan Civil War. It began when pro-Gaddafi government troops attacked the city, held by the National Transitional Council , in the early hours of 2 March 2011.