Codice albumGBB-F-004522

Codice inventarioGBB-F-004522-0000

1941, january, LYBIA : Australian Tropus official War Office photo. Original caption: " Italian occupation of LYBIA was brief but during that time this monument was erected commemorating italian liberation of Lybia from Egyptian tiranny. A driver of the Australian Official Photographic Unity advance. Scene in SIDI BARRANI. " The Italian invasion of Egypt (Operazione E the day 13 september 1940) was an Italian offensive against British, Commonwealth and Free French forces during the Western Desert Campaign (19401943) of the Second World War. The goal of an offensive was to seize the Suez Canal; to accomplish this, Italian forces from Libya would have to advance across northern Egypt to the canal. After numerous delays, the aim of the offensive was reduced to an advance into Egypt, as far as Sidi Barrani and attacks on any British forces in the area.

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