What the records say
- When
- 31 Jan 1941 – 1 Mar 1941
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 24.18° N, 23.28° E
- Description
- 1941 World War II battle between an Anglo-French force and the Italians
- War
- World War II
Capture of Kufra
Combat action during the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War
The Capture of Kufra was part of the Allied Western Desert Campaign during the Second World War. Kufra is a group of oases in the Kufra District of south-eastern Cyrenaica in the Libyan Desert. In 1940, it was part of the colony of Italian Libya Libia Italiana, which was part of Africa Settentrionale Italiana (ASI), which had been established in 1934.
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- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “les forces françaises libres du colonel Leclerc s'emparent de l'oasis de Koufra”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page