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British Commanders Underestimated Italian Forces at Bir el Gubi (and Paid the Price)
When planning the relief of Tobruk in late 1941, British Eighth Army commanders brusquely discounted the opposition they would face from Italian armored forces.
Here s What You Need to Know: The first armored battle of Operation Crusader was an Axis more appropriately, an Italian victory.
February 1941 saw the fortunes of war favor the British in the North African wasteland of Cyrenaica (modern Libya). Two months prior the Italian 10th Army, over 250,000 strong under Marshal Rodolfo Granziani, had been swept from the area sustaining 12,000 men killed and missing, another 130,000 captured, with the loss of 400 tanks, hundreds of aircraft, as well as 850 artillery pieces. ....

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