Major conflict1940 – 1943 · 3 years

Western Desert Campaign

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Libya · Egypt · Tobruk · El Alamein

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Three-year see-saw campaign in Cyrenaica and the Egyptian western desert between the Commonwealth and the Axis.

Belligerents3

United Kingdom
Kingdom of Italy
Nazi Germany

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

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Western Desert Campaign (1940 – 1943). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/western-desert-campaign · Sources & methodology