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Brigadier Frederick Alexander Burrows, DSO, MM (10 November 1897 – 23 May 1973) was a salesman and an Australian Army soldier who served in the First and the Second World Wars. A non-commissioned officer in the First World War, during the Second World War he was commander of the 2/13th Battalion during Operation Crusader and the Siege of Tobruk.
Operation Crusader (18 November – 30 December 1941) was a military operation of the Western Desert campaign during World War II by the British Eighth Army (with Commonwealth, Indian and Allied contingents) against the Axis forces (German and Italian) in North Africa commanded by Generalleutnant (Lieutenant-General) Erwin Rommel.
On 18 November 1941 the British Eighth Army launched Operation Crusader to relieve the siege of Tobruk. The Trento, which together with the 17th Infantry Division "Pavia" , the 25th Infantry Division "Bologna" , and the 27th Infantry Division "Brescia" formed the Italian XXI Army Corps , came under attack from the defenders of Tobruk and ...
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 1941, during the Second World War. Point 175 is a small rise just south of the Trigh Capuzzo, a desert track east of Sidi Rezegh and south of Zaafran.
As the attack on Tobruk was stalling and General Erwin Rommel was forced to order the Brescia to return to reinforce the siege of Tobruk. During the night of 30 April 1941 an Italo-German force attacked the Tobruk defenses and the 132nd Armored Division "Ariete" and the Brescia captured seven strong points (R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7 and R8). [10]
Four Battles in North Africa presents a single set of rules, which are used for four different battles: [1] In addition, each battle has a few rules unique to the situation. The game system is adapted from SPI's 1972 Napoleonic wargame The Battle of Borodino: Napoleon in Russia 1812 , which uses a simple alternating series of turns, where one ...
This training was in preparation for the 2nd New Zealand Division's role in the upcoming Operation Crusader, which was planned to lift the siege of Tobruk. [19] The New Zealanders were to be one of the 8th Army 's infantry divisions that were to surround and capture the main strong points along the front while the armoured divisions were to ...
Crusader: Battle for Tobruk, November 1941 is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1976 that simulates Operation Crusader during World War II. The game was originally published as part of the Four Battles in North Africa "quadrigame" — a gamebox containing four games simulating four separate battles that all use ...