Britain's famed siege port of Tobruk fell today after an overwhelming, 24-hour assault by Col. Gen. Erwin Rommel's forces.

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Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrika Corps forced British forces back across North Africa, after a series of victories. It had decisively defeated the British Eighth Army in a series of engagements ...

3. During the months of the Tobruk siege Jewish stevedores from Tel Aviv organized in special units, handled the delivery of supplies to the besieged troops despite constant Nazi bombing from the air.

Home Archive Not Talking about Tobruk. Not Talking about Tobruk. By Tico Times. August 11, 2006. Share. Facebook. Twitter. WhatsApp. Email. The siege of Toro was raised in November of 1942, leaving ...

The Rats of Tobruk was the name given to the soldiers of the garrison who held the Libyan port against a German-Italian army commanded by Gen.Erwin Rommel during the 1941 Siege of Tobruk.

There are only a few of the original Rats of Tobruk still alive, but many of those gathered in Canberra on Sunday to mark 75 years since the famous World War II siege.

By the way the sergeant who was my friend, he left our regiment after the siege of tobruk and went to Cairo H.Q. He stayed in the army and became a Major General.

One of the last surviving veterans of the siege of Tobruk has opened up about his time in World War Two, ahead of the 81st anniversary of the crucial battle. Families of those who died in the ...

SCHOOL children should strive to have the same attitude that brave soldiers showed when they refused to surrender during the siege of Tobruk and the Second World War.