Major conflict1941

Siege of Tobruk

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Tobruk

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Eight-month Australian-led defense of Tobruk against Rommel's Afrika Korps, the longest siege in British military history.

Belligerents6

Australia
United Kingdom
Poland
India
Nazi Germany
Kingdom of Italy

ON THE MAPBritish Empire (1939)Third Reich (1941)

Sources

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