Battle of Mersa Matruh
The Battle of Mersa Matruh was fought from 26 to 29 June 1942, following the defeat of the Eighth Army (General Sir Claude Auchinleck) at the Battle of Gazala and was part of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. The combatant on the Axis side was the Panzer Army Afrika (Panzerarmee Afrika (Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel), consisting of German and Italian units. The Allied forces of the Eighth Army comprised X Corps and XIII Corps. The battle developed as the Afrika Korps pursued the Eighth Army as it retreated into Egypt. Rommel intended to engage and destroy the Allied infantry formations in detail, before the British had a chance to regroup. The Axis cut off the line of retreat of X Corps and XIII Corps but was too weak to stop the British from breaking out. The fortre
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Battle of Mersa Matruh
The Battle of Mersa Matruh was fought from 26 to 29 June 1942, following the defeat of the Eighth Army (General Sir Claude Auchinleck) at the Battle of Gazala and was part of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. The combatant on the Axis side was the Panzer Army Afrika (Panzerarmee Afrika (Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel), consisting of German and Italian units. The Allied forces of the Eighth Army comprised X Corps and XIII Corps. The battle developed as the Afrika Korps pursued the Eighth Army as it retreated into Egypt. Rommel intended to engage and destroy the Allied infantry formations in detail, before the British had a chance to regroup. The Axis cut off the line of retreat of X Corps and XIII Corps but was too weak to stop the British from breaking out. The fortre
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The Battle of Mersa Matruh was ...... but the Eighth Army survived.
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8,000 killed, wounded or captured
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1942-06-29
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Axis victory
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German: 60 tanks
Italian: 40 tanks
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of the 21st Panzer Division.
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Claude Auchinleck
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Erwin Rommel
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Ettore Bastico
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Walter Nehring
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William Gott
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William Holmes
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Battle of Mersa Matruh
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Mersa Matruh, Egypt
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Mersa Matruh
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Egypt
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the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War
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Mersa Matruh, east of Egyptian frontier
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Axis victory
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The Battle of Mersa Matruh was ...... from breaking out. The fortre
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