The Raid onBardia was an amphibious landing at the coastal town of Bardia in North Africa by British Commandos over the night of 19/20 April 1941 during the Second World War. The raid was carried out by No. 7 Commando, also known as A Battalion Layforce, together with a small detachment from the Royal Tank Regiment; the raiders were supported by five navy ships and a submarine. The raid destroyed an Italian artillery battery and a supply dump. It was deemed a success despite the loss of 71 men. The more lasting strategic effect of the raid was the diversion of a German armoured brigade from the front line to provide rear area security.
The RaidonBardia was an amphibious landing at the coastal town of Bardia in North Africa by British Commandos over the night of 19/20 April 1941 during...
prisoner of war camps. He was replaced by Mayne as commander of the SAS. RaidonBardia Operation Caravan Long Range Desert Group Desert warfare List of North...
The Battle of Bardia was fought between 3 and 5 January 1941, as part of Operation Compass, the first British military operation of the Western Desert...
Operation Jubilee or the Dieppe Raid (19 August 1942) was a disastrous Allied amphibious attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe in northern France...
Compass pursued the retreating Italian forces. In January, the small port at Bardia was taken, soon followed by the seizure of the fortified port of Tobruk...
frontier from Giarabub to Sidi Omar and XXI Corps from Sidi Omar to the coast, Bardia and Tobruk. The XXII Corps moved south-west of Tobruk to act as a counter-attack...
London: Hamilton. OCLC 67441147. Stevens, Major-General W. G. (1962). Bardia to Enfidaville. The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World...
The St Nazaire Raid or Operation Chariot was a British amphibious attack on the heavily defended Normandie dry dock at St Nazaire in German-occupied France...
coastal plain. Another operation by the Rangers raided an Italian position and took 200 prisoners on the night of 20 March, scaling a sheer cliff and...
Open Letter to the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster" 1941: "Commando RaidonBardia" 1946: "Fan Fare" (Life, 8 April 1946) 1946: "What to do with the Upper...
Hans-Jürgen von Arnim, reached the Allied positions on the eastern foot of the Atlas Mountains on January 30. The 21st Panzer Division met French troops...
Alexandria and three days later they received orders to carry out a raidonBardia and another on Bomba. The attacks had to be abandoned, however, due to high...
conducted raids in 1943 along a 1,600 miles (2,600 km) path from Lake Chad to Tripoli and joined with General Bernard Montgomery's British Eighth Army on 25...
by the increased use of explosive bullets by the Italians. (On 14 December, a raidonBardia by nine Blenheims cost one aircraft shot down and seven damaged...
captured Bardiaon 2 January 1942, Sollum on 12 January and the fortified Halfaya position on 17 January, taking about 13,800 prisoners. On 21 January...
carried out by the 47th Infantry Regiment of the U.S. Army and took place on the morning of 8 November 1942 as part of a larger operation to capture Casablanca...
at the time) in their raidonBardia in April. The objective was to silence a coastal defence battery atop 300 ft high cliffs on a rocky coast. Here the...
as the Måløy Raid, was a British Combined Operations raid during World War II against German positions on the island of Vågsøy, Norway, on 27 December...
against German units in well-prepared and dug-in defences. In the advance on Tunis, the British 4th Infantry Division (part of British IX Corps, ) was...
The Battle of Port Lyautey began on 8 November 1942 for the city of Port Lyautey, today known as Kenitra, in French Morocco. The battle ended with its...
least of refusing to fire on the attackers. However the Vichy forces opened fire on the ships, damaging them heavily. At 4.00 am on the morning of 8 November...
as it fell back to Mersa Matruh (Matruh), then began Operation Compass, a raid and counter-attack into Libya. The 10th Army was destroyed and the WDF occupied...
Sedjenane is a town in northern Tunisia, on the railway line to Mateur and the port of Bizerta. The Battle of Sedjenane was fought during World War II...
mostly Italian, in front of them. On the night of 16/17 December, a company of the 1st US Infantry Division raided Maknassy, 155 mi (249 km) south of...
defensive "islands" on high ground, which risked defeat in detail. Rommel was conscious of the danger of an attack by the Allies on the Eastern Dorsale...
Raid, was a British Combined Operations raidon a German coastal radar installation at Bruneval in northern France, during the Second World War, on the...
Alexandria was a base of warships and supply ships in Egypt. In the 1941 raidon Alexandria Italian Navy divers attacked two Royal Navy battleships with...
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