What the records say
- When
- 6 Feb 1941 – 25 May 1941
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 27.00° N, 17.00° E
- Description
- 1941 battle
- War
- World War II
Operation Sonnenblume
Dispatch of German and Italian troops to North Africa during the Second World War
Operation Sonnenblume was the name given to the dispatch of German and Italian troops to North Africa in February 1941, during the Second World War. The Italian 10th Army had been destroyed by the British, Commonwealth, Empire and Allied Western Desert Force attacks during Operation Compass (9 December 1940 – 9 February 1941).
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- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Die ersten Verbände des Deutschen Afrikakorps unter dem Befehl des Generalleutnants Erwin Rommel treffen im Rahmen des Unternehmens Sonnenblume zur…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page