The port city of Tobruk would become the epicenter of the brutal African campaign during World War 2, and it would push the Allies to unimaginable lengths in their attempt to defend it.

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Allies take Tobruk in North Africa, and resist German attacks. Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, and the US enters the war. 1942. Germany suffers setbacks at Stalingrad and El Alamein.

During WWII, Nazi forces were preparing to take the coastal city of Tobruk and tighten their grip on North Africa. In response, the Allies turned their attention to another key strategic location ...

Thomas Pritchard, Australia's last "Rat of Tobruk", one of that famed garrison who held the eponymous Libyan port against a furious Nazi siege in World War II, has died. The Rats of Tobruk ...

William Joyce, aka Lord Haw Haw, centre, with two guards while under arrest in Germany in 1945. Joyce named the Allies the “Rats of Tobruk”. Now almost 99 years old, ...

At 3 a.m. the roar of a barrage laid down by Tobruk’s defenders broke out at the western end of the 30-mile defense perimeter; Polish troops from the garrison started a diversion there.

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