![]() In response to Italy losing strategic holdings to the British, the German Reich deployed the Deutsches Afrikakorps – otherwise known as the German Africa Corps – to rapidly force the British and Commonwealth armies back into Libya and Egypt in early 1941. The United Kingdom was the foremost Allied power in the Mediterranean region at the time, and their naval and land victories in both the 1940 Battle of Taranto and the 1941 Operation Compass pushed Italy out of Egypt. ![]() ![]() From 1936 to 1943, Italy invaded and controlled Yugoslavia, British Somaliland, Tunisia, certain parts of Greece and France, and a fragment of Egypt. The Kingdom of Italy – under the reign of Benito Mussolini and the National Fascist Party – aspired to create a modern Roman Empire through conquest and colonization in the Mediterranean and in Africa. (Imperial War Museum)ĭuring World War II, the combined militaries of the Allies and Axis powers clashed across the Mediterranean Sea in Southern Europe, part of the Middle East, and most prominently in North Africa. Over 2.5 million Indian soldiers fought with the Allied armies across the planet in World War II. (Imperial War Museum) Soldiers from the British Indian Army standing at attention in North Africa, October 1940. (Bundesarchiv – German Federal Archives) British soldiers advancing during the Second Battle of El Alamein, October 1942. German field marshal Erwin Rommel observing the Battle of Alam el Halfa from a Sd.Kfz.
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