African Front
Countries-Libya, Egypt, Algeria, Tunisha, and Morocco the top Northern part of Africa
Well June 10 of 1940 the conflict in Northern Africa started because of the Italian Declaration of War
Major Generals-Erwin Rommel, William Gott, Bernard Montgomery, Dwight Eisenhower
1940s
Jun 15-17 first battle at Fort Capuzzo
Jun 17 was the first tank at Girba- Battle of Girba
September, the second Battle of Fort Capuzzo
December 8 to February 9, Operation Compass
1941
Rommels first offense
Operation Skorpion
Operation Battleaxe
Operation Crusader
Rommel's Second offensive
Battle of Gazala
First Battle of El Alamein
Battle of Alam El Halfa
Operation Torch-Allied Victory-our big invasion of North Africa
Eigth Army Offensive
Tunisha Campaign
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Tunisia Campaign still continued on
In the African Campaign the Allied Powers was successful for them
Free French-16,000 killed, wounded, captured, or missing
British Empire-50,000 killed, wounded, captured, or missing
United States-2,715 killed, 8,528 wounded, 6528 went missing
Germany-12,808 killed, 309,784 were captured
Italy-22,341 killed and missing
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