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16 June: The first tank battle of the North African campaign takes place, the "Engagement at Nezuet Ghirba" [3] 3 July: British navy shells French warships in the port of Oran (Mers El Kébir) to keep them out of German hands. 13 September: Italian forces invade Egypt from Libya; 16 September: Italian forces establish front east of Sidi Barrani
The War in North Africa, 1940–1943: A Selected Bibliography. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-29120-3. Bernhard, Patrick (1 December 2012). "Behind the Battle Lines: Italian Atrocities and the Persecution of Arabs, Berbers, and Jews in North Africa during World War II". Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 26 (3): 425– 446.
The North African campaign of World War II, sometimes called the "Desert War", includes the campaigns in Egypt and Libya (often referred to as the Western Desert campaign or the "Egypt–Libya Campaign") and those campaigns in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia (usually referred to as the Tunisian campaign.
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The Battle of Steamroller Farm took place during the Second World War between 26 February and 1 March 1943, during the Tunisian campaign, in which the Western Allies defeated the Axis powers and ended the war in North Africa. The battle was the result of a German attempt to launch an attack against the advancing British First Army in order to ...
"North Africa" has a definition approximately that of the Arab term Maghreb, in addition to Egypt "Conflict" is defined as a separate 100+ casualty incident. In all cases conflicts are listed by total deaths, including subconflicts (specified below).