Battle of Bardia
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battle-of-bardia-164-17632735
title:
Battle of Bardia
text:
The Battle of Bardia was fought between 3 and 5 January 1941, as part of Operation Compass, the first British military operation of the Western Desert campaign of the Second World War. It was the first battle of the war in which an Australian Army formation took part, the first to be commanded by an Australian general and the first to be planned by an Australian staff. The 6th Australian Division assaulted the strongly held Italian fortress of Bardia, Libya, assisted by air support and naval gun
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Battle of World War II
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bardia
date created:
2008-02-20T22:20:01Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T07:02:01Z
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13
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