Pengepungan Tobruk

Pengepungan Tobruk berlangsung selama 241 hari pada 1941, setelah pasukan Blok Poros maju ke Cyrenaica dari El Agheila dalam Operasi Sonnenblume melawan Pasukan Gurun Barat Inggris di Libya, pada Kampanye Gurun Barat (1940–1943) pada Perang Dunia Kedua. Pada akhir 1940, Inggris mengalahkan Tentara ke-10 Italia pada Operasi Compass (9 Desember 1940 – 9 Februari 1941) dan menjebak sisanya di Beda Fomm.

Pengepungan Tobruk Bagian dari Kampanye Gurun Barat Pasukan Australia sedang menduduki posisi garis depan di Tobruk Tanggal 10 April – 27 November 1941, Lokasi Tobruk, Libya 32°04′34″N 23°57′41″E Hasil Kemenangan Sekutu Pihak terlibat  Australia  Britania Raya India Pasukan Bersenjata Polandia di Barat Pasukan Cekoslowakia Merdeka Italia (sejak 12 April 1941) Tokoh dan pemimpin Leslie Morshead (April–September 1941) Ronald Scobie (September–November 1941) Rodolfo Graziani Kekuatan 27,000 35,000 Korban 5,989 12,296 74–150 pesawat

Templat:Kotak Kampanye Gurun Barat

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Pranala luar

• Polish Carpathian Brigade in the defence of Tobruk Diarsipkan 2008-05-01 di Wayback Machine.
• The Characteristic of Tobruk defence in 1941 Diarsipkan 2004-06-04 di Wayback Machine.
• Australian War Memorial – Siege of Tobruk