Combat action during the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War
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Battle of Kufra
Part of Operation Compass, during the Second World War
UN map of Libya, Kufra (now Al Kufrah) to the south-east
The Capture of Kufra (Prise de Koufra, Italian: Cufra) was part of the Allied Western Desert Campaign during the Second World War. Kufra is a group of oases in the Kufra District of south-eastern Cyrenaica in the Libyan Desert. In 1940, it was part of the colony of Italian Libya Libia Italiana, which was part of Africa Settentrionale Italiana (ASI), which had been established in 1934.
With some early assistance from the British Long Range Desert Group, Kufra was besieged from 31 January to 1 March 1941 by Free French forces which forced the surrender of the Italian and Libyan garrison.
The CaptureofKufra (Prise de Koufra, Italian: Cufra) was part of the Allied Western Desert Campaign during the Second World War. Kufra is a group of oases...
Kufra (/ˈkuːfrə/) is a basin and oasis group in the Kufra District of southeastern Cyrenaica in Libya. At the end of nineteenth century Kufra became the...
colonial troops and the Senussi CaptureofKufra, the World War II battle between an Anglo-French force and the Italians 2008 Kufra conflict, an armed conflict...
attack on Kufra was not possible and the remaining British returned to Cairo, after a 45-day journey of 6,900 km (4,300 mi). Kufra was captured by the French...
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site in the Kufra Oasis, within the Libyan Desert subregion of the Sahara. It is in the Kufra District in the southern Cyrenaica region of southeastern...
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the decisive CaptureofKufra. With the Oath of Kuffra, they swore to keep up the fight until the French flag flew over the Cathedral of Strasbourg. Many...
Free French in 1940 and was a staging post for the CaptureofKufra, operations against the Kufra oasis group. Sonderkommando Blaich had been conducting...
swimmer, in Bussum, Netherlands[citation needed] The battle known as the CaptureofKufra began in Libya.[citation needed] The Japanese government arranged a...
Kufra Airport (IATA: AKF, ICAO: HLKF) is an airport serving Al Jawf, capital of the Kufra District in southeastern Libya. The airport is just east of...
following events occurred in March 1941: The Allies completed the CaptureofKufra. The Battle of South Henan ended in Chinese victory. Bulgaria signed the Tripartite...
This is a chronological list of the last known surviving veterans of battles, sieges, campaigns, and other military operations throughout history. The...
the Free French at Kufra. The unit was then issued a 25 pounder gun-howitzer portee. The LRDG successfully attacked and captured the fort at El Gtafia...
The Axis captureof Tobruk, also known as the Fall of Tobruk and the Second Battle of Tobruk (17–21 June 1942) was part of the Western Desert campaign...
The British captureof Tobruk was a battle fought between 21 and 22 January 1941, as part of Operation Compass, the first offensive of the Western Desert...
division was involved in the capture ofKufra, Libya, in March 1941 where Leclerc and his men swore the Oath ofKufra: "to lay down their arms only when...
Kufra conflict started in the aftermath of the Libyan civil war, and involved armed clashes between the Tobu and Zuwayya tribes in the Kufra area of Cyrenaica...
widely dispersed group of oases in unconnected shallow depressions, the Kufra group, consisting of Tazerbo, Rebianae and Kufra. Aside from the scarps...
the "Oath ofKufra." On November 22, 1944, the French 2nd Armored Division, along with the French First Army, had been assigned the captureof Strasbourg...
Government. From Chad he led raids into Italian Libya. After his forces capturedKufra, he had his men swear an oath known today as the Serment de Koufra,...
Mannella having been captured earlier on in the day. In February of 1941, the Allies defeated the 10th Army and the 5° Squadra of the Regia Aeronautica...
and captured all government territory, ending the genocide and forcing the government and génocidaires into Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the...
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