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Operation Compass
Operation Compass
was the first large
Allied
military operation of the
Western Desert Campaign
(1940–1943) during
World War II
.
British
and other
Commonwealth
forces attacked
Italian
forces in western
Egypt
and
Cyrenaica
, the eastern province of
Libya
, from December 1940 to February 1941, with great success. The
Western Desert Force
(
Lieutenant-General
Richard O'Connor
) with about advanced from
Mersa Matruh
in Egypt on a five-day raid against the Italian positions of the
10th Army
(Marshal
Rodolfo Graziani
), which had about in fortified posts around
Sidi Barrani
and in Cyrenaica.
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