Tobruk
Proper noun
Meaning
Tobruk
A city and port on the Mediterranean in eastern Libya.
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A garrison of around 14,000 Australian soldiers, commanded by Lieutenant General Leslie Morshead was besieged in Tobruk, Libya by the German-Italian army of General Erwin Rommel between April and August 1941.
His fuel state continued to be critical: on 1 November, two more supply ships—the Tripolino and the Ostia—had been torpedoed and sunk from the air north-west of Tobruk.
Kesselring was ordered to get control of the air and sea between Africa and Italy.sfn Operation Crusader main convert Flak 18 guns fire upon British armour Following his success in Battleaxe, Rommel returned his attention to the capture of Tobruk.
Beginning on 10 April 1941, the Siege of Tobruk lasted for 240 days.
Hinsley, p. 423 By 25 October, Panzer Army fuel stocks were down to three day's supply, of which only two days-worth were east of Tobruk.
Nevertheless, although the fall of Tobruk was, by Churchill's own account "one of the heaviest blows" he received during the war, W. S. Churchill, Hinge of Fate (Cassell, 1951), p. 344. there seem to have been no tears.