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| Welcome to the War
in the Desert Timeline! |
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| This timeline covers all
the political and military events that occurred within Africa and
the Middle East between the years 1940 and 1943. |
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"To every
man of us, Tobruk was a symbol of British resistance, and we
are now going to finish with it for good."
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
June 1942 |
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Field Marshal
Bernard
Montgomery |
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Field Marshal
Erwin
Rommel |
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| German SdKfz 222 |
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| The SdKfz 222 that served with the
Afrika Korps reconnaissance units and was armed with a
2cm cannon and a coaxial machine-gun. Carrying a 3 man
crew, it had performed well enough, but was handicapped
in the desert by its relatively short cross-country range
of 100 miles. |
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