Mechili (Arabic: المخيلي) is a small village in Cyrenaica, Libya and the site of a former Turkish fort.[1] It is nearly 274 km (170 mi) east of Benghazi and 80 km (50 mi) west of Timimi.
^Rommel's North Africa Campaign: September 1940 – November 1942, Jack Greene, Alessandro Massignani, Da Capo Press, 1999
Mechili (Arabic: المخيلي) is a small village in Cyrenaica, Libya and the site of a former Turkish fort. It is nearly 274 km (170 mi) east of Benghazi...
The action at Mechili was an engagement between units of the British 7th Armoured Division of the Western Desert Force and Italian forces of the 10th...
ordered to encircle Mechili and cut the western and north-western exits, while the 7th Armoured Brigade cut the road from Mechili to Slonta but the Babini...
Division held a line from Derna, along Wadi Derna to Mechili, with the Babini Group at Mechili, Giovanni Berta and Chaulan, guarding the flank and rear...
water shortage permitted. A considerable British force was captured at Mechili, which led to the British retreat continuing to Tobruk and then on to the...
near Er Regima. The force was to use depots at Msus, Tecnis, Martuba, Mechili and Tmimi, El Magrun and Benghazi as a substitute for lorry-borne supply...
in December but the Babini Group fought in defence of the area between Mechili and Derna in late January. On 23 January, the group managed to inflict...
Indian Army during World War II. In 1941, the brigade was surrounded at Mechili by Axis forces during Operation Sonnenblume and suffered many casualties...
main attacks to the cruiser and Matilda II tanks. During an engagement at Mechili on 24 January, six Mk VIs were destroyed by newly arrived superior Italian...
pulled back to Tobruk to avoid encirclement after actions at Er Regima and Mechili and reached Tobruk on 9 April 1941. There prolonged fighting followed,...
along the coast to Sollum and across the border to Bardia, Tobruk, Derna, Mechili, Beda Fomm and El Agheila on the Gulf of Sirte. The British suffered casualties...
Akhdar, for an advance on Mechili. On 23 January, Tellera ordered a counter-attack against the British as they approached Mechili, to avoid an envelopment...
Bardia January 9–26: First Battle of Tobruk January 25: First Battle of Mechili January 24–26: Battle of Derna February 5: Fall of Benghazi February 5–7:...
exploit the absence of German tanks and break through to Timimi and then Mechili. Ritchie was more concerned by Tobruk, brought reinforcements up to the...
captured in Derna 8 April: British, Indian and Australian forces captured at Mechili 10 April: Siege of Tobruk begins with Australian, British and Indian forces...
Greco–Italian War Mediterranean Front 1941-01-06 1941-01-11 Greece Italy Allies Mechili Western Desert campaign African Front 1941-01-24 United Kingdom Italy...
Flooding also occurred in Tobruk, Tacnis, Al-Bayada, Battah, Qandulah, and Mechili as well as throughout the Jabal al Akhdar district and in Misrata to the...
areas. Already on patrol, 'Y1' and 'Y2' Patrols attacked targets in the Mechili, Derna and Gazala area. 'Y1' damaged fifteen vehicles in a transport park...
casualties. The WDF continued its westwards advance towards Derna and Mechili. In September 1940 the Italian invasion of Egypt had begun but stopped...
Corazzata Speciale under General Valentino Babini), with about 300 tanks, at Mechili. The BCS slipped away and from 26 to 28 January the British tanks bogged...
April 1941, his brigade, the 3rd Indian Motor Brigade, was surrounded at Mechili by numerically superior Axis forces. Being encircled, the allied forces...
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