Operation Brevity

When

15 May 1941 – 16 May 1941

Kind

Military operation

Coordinates

31.58° N, 25.05° E

Description

World War II military offensive

1941 World War II military offensive

Operation Brevity was an attack in mid-May 1941, during the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. Conceived by the commander-in-chief of the British Middle East Command, General Archibald Wavell, Brevity was intended to be a rapid blow against weak Axis front-line forces in the Sollum–Capuzzo–Bardia area of the border between Egypt and Libya.

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