Modern NASA satellite photograph of the city of Tripoli and its port
Operation Acrobat was a proposed British attack on Tripoli in 1942. It was discussed on 9 and 13 January 1942 by the Chiefs of Staff and representatives of Middle East Command (General Sir Claude Auchinleck). The Chief of the Imperial General Staff, General Alan Brooke, wondered if the operation "was on" because of the delays in the capture of Cyrenaica (following Allied victory in Operation Crusader) because it could not be carried out for six weeks, during which Axis reinforcements could flow into Africa from Italy. Brooke had a low opinion of Auchinleck's staff, though not of Auchinleck; the situation in the Far East was already serious (Japan had been at war with Britain and the US since December 1941, and within months would overrun Singapore and Burma, and threaten Ceylon).[1] The planning of Operation Acrobat is depicted by a propaganda film Tunisian Victory (1944). Acrobat was intended as an accompanying operation to Operation Gymnast, a proposed Allied invasion of Vichy French North Africa (Morocco and Algeria), to which Churchill was trying to persuade the American leaders to commit. Acrobat ceased to be feasible after Auchinleck's forces, defeated by Erwin Rommel at the Battle of Gazala, retreated to El Alamein in Egypt, but Operation Gymnast, now renamed Operation Torch, began in November 1942.
^Alanbrooke, Field Marshal Lord (2001). War Diaries 1939–1945. London: Phoenix Press. pp. 219, 225. ISBN 1-84212-526-5.
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