Kampanye Afrika Utara
Kampanye Afrika Utara dari Perang Dunia Kedua terjadi di Afrika Utara dari 10 Juni 1940 sampai 13 Mei 1943. Ini meliputi kampanye-kampanye yang terjadi di gurun-gurun Libya dan Mesir (Kampanye Gurun Barat, juga dikenal sebagai Perang Gurun) dan di Maroko dan Aljazair (Operasi Torch), serta Tunisia (Kampanye Tunisia)
Kampanye ini bermula Dari diserbu nya Gurun barat mesir oleh angkatan darat Italia/Regia Escercito awalnya Italia Mendapat Kesuksesan namun di Pertengahan 1940 Italia Terdesak Hingga Ke Benghazi oleh Serangan Balik Inggris lewat Operasi Compass
Melihat Sekutu nya terdesak Hitler mengirimkan Bantuan 2 Korps Panzer di Bawah pimpinan Erwin Rommel dengan datangnya Erwin Rommel
Axis sukses membalikan keadaan melalui Kemenangan di berberapa Pertempuran dan termasuk Sukses Terbesar Axis Di Afrika Utara Yaitu Di rebutnya kota Tobruk yang merupakan Salah satu Pelabuhan besar Di wilayah tersebut.Yang membuat Rommel Di juluki sebagai "The Desert Fox"/ Rubah Gurun
Referensi
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Pranala luar
- The Jews of North Africa and the Holocaust an e-Newsletter for Holocaust educators by Yad Vashem
- BBC's flash video of the North African Campaign
- Timeline of the North African Campaign
- General sites on the North African Campaign
- Spartacus Educational website: Desert War
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- Zabecki, David T. (2000). "Battlefield North Africa: Rommel's Rise And Fall". Military.com World War II.
- Canadian World War 2 Online Newspaper Archives – The North African Campaigns, 1940–1943
- North African Campaign Desert War.net