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unusual facts about Tobruk


Paul Stader

After his acting roles ended, Stader continued performing stunts into the 1980s, having worked on such other films as Repossessed, Demetrius and the Gladiators, Giant, Our Man Flint, Tobruk, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Blazing Saddles, The Great Waldo Pepper, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure, and a 1985 television movie of Alice in Wonderland.


Ajdabiya

The interstate line through Tobruk may diverge here from the coastal line to Benghazi to avoid difficult coast terrain and to save distance.

Battle of Gazala

He recaptured Benghazi on 28 January, and Timimi on 3 February and pressed on toward the fortified port of Tobruk on the Mediterranean coast.

Bi'r al Ashhab

It is located about 69 kilometres south-east of the capital of the Butnan District - Tobruk.

George Silk

Trapped with the famed Desert Rats at Tobruk in Libya, he was captured by German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's forces but escaped 10 days later.

Italian battleship Regina Elena

Regina Elena, Roma, and the armored cruiser San Marco were stationed in Benghazi, with Regina Elena recently arriving from Tobruk.

Jaghbub, Libya

The fence still runs along the Libyan-Egyptian border from near Tobruk, finishing at Jaghbub where the desolate Great Sand Sea begins.

Jon Latimer

His books include Operation Compass 1940 (Osprey, 2000), Tobruk 1941 (Osprey, 2001), Deception in War (John Murray, 2001), Alamein (John Murray, 2002), Burma: The Forgotten War (John Murray, 2004) and 1812: War with America (Harvard University Press, 2007) which won a Distinguished Book Award from the Society for Military History and was shortlisted for the George Washington Book Prize.

Knights of the Desert

For example, players can play as either the Axis or Allies in 1941 when Rommel bypassed Tobruk or again in 1942 when he had captured it or on the eve of El Alamein.

Leo Gordon

Among the most notable feature films he wrote were You Can't Win 'Em All (1970) starring Tony Curtis and Charles Bronson and Tobruk (1967) starring Rock Hudson and George Peppard and directed by Arthur Hiller, in which he appeared as Sergeant Krug.

Mechili

However, its isolation ended after paving the Charruba-Timimi desert road between the years 1975-1985, and this road became the preferred route for travel between Tobruk to Benghazi.

Michael O'Moore Creagh

The small port of Bardia fell to advancing British, Australian and Indian forces in the WDF under the command of General Sir Richard O'Connor, followed as the new year of 1941 came in, by Tobruk as the Italians retreated along the Via Balbia, the metallised coastal road that led back to Benghazi and Tripoli.

Middle East Theatre of World War II

Although ordered to simply hold the line, Rommel launched an offensive from El Agheila in March 1941 which, with the exception of Tobruk, managed to press the Allies beyond Salum on the Egyptian border, effectively putting both sides back at their approximate pre-war positions.

Northern Expressway

The interchanges/bridges along the expressway were all named after famous battles in which Australian forces fought, such as Long Tan, Kokoda, Tobruk and Kapyong.

Operation Morris Dance

Company, 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment was added to this force on 23 May, with the soldiers being flown from Townsville to Norfolk Island and transferred by helicopter to Stalwart,Tobruk and Success.

Rats of Tobruk Memorial

The replica memorial is based on the 1941 memorial in the Tobruk War Cemetery, built by Australian soldiers during the siege, which has since been destroyed.

Siege of Tobruk

On 6 April, Lieutenant-General Philip Neame—by that time the military governor of Cyrenaica (Wilson had been sent to command W Force in Greece)—withdrew his headquarters to Tmimi, west of Tobruk.

SS Tobruk

Tobruk was a 7,090 GRT cargo ship which was built in 1941 as Empire Builder by William Gray & Sons Ltd for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT).

Voice of Free Libya

During the Libyan civil war, other rebel-controlled radio stations were reported to be operating in Tobruk, Nalut, Jadu, Libya, Derna and Zliten.


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