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9 March: Rommel returned to Germany. Command of the Army Group Africa was handed over to General Hans-Jürgen von Arnim. 16 March: Battle of the Mareth Line begins [9] 19 March: Eighth Army launches Operation Pugilist; 23 March: U.S. II Corps emerge from Kasserine to match the Axis at Battle of El Guettar. Battle of Mareth ends. [9]
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.
The North African campaign of World War II took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 13 May 1943, fought between the Allies and the Axis Powers. It included campaigns in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts ( Western Desert campaign , Desert War), in Morocco and Algeria ( Operation Torch ), and in Tunisia ( Tunisia campaign ).
British 8th Army and U.S. 5th Army attempt unsuccessfully to break into the north Italian plains. • Battle of Arnhem: The major battle of Operation Market Garden; Allies reach but fail to cross the Rhine; British First Airborne Division destroyed. • Battle of Peleliu: A fight to capture an airstrip on a speck of coral in the western Pacific.
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 ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Timeline of the North African campaign; List of North African campaign battles; 0–9. 19th Flak Division ...
When the Roman Empire began to collapse, North Africa was spared much of the disruption until the Vandal invasion of 429 AD. The Vandals ruled in North Africa until the territories were regained by Justinian of the Eastern Empire in the 6th century. Egypt was never invaded by the Vandals because there was a thousand-mile buffer of desert and ...
First Sudanese Civil War Sudan: 500,000 1954–1962 Algerian War of Independence [7] Algeria: 1,000,000–1,500,000 1957–1958 Ifni War Morocco, Spanish West Africa: 8,400 1958–1959 1958 Rif riots Morocco ~4000 1961 Bizerte crisis Tunisia: 654 1961–1964 First Tuareg rebellion Mali, Niger: 1963–1964 Sand War Morocco, Algeria: 339 1963–1965