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Battle of Tripoli | |||||||
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Part of the North African Campaign | |||||||
![]() A Daimler armoured car opens fire in the gloom of early morning at the start of the battle for Tripoli, 18 January 1943. | |||||||
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German-Italian Panzer Army | British Eighth Army |
The Battle of Tripoli was an engagement on between the Deutsch-Italienische Panzerarmee commanded by Erwin Rommel of Germany and Ettore Bastico of Italy, who held the town, and the British 8th Army, a Commonwealth force commanded by Sir Bernard Montgomery. After a short siege, the Italian and German forces withdrew from Tripoli, and the Allies entered the town to great worldwide fanfare.
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