Operation Crusader
An Italian soldier surrenders to a Jawan, during Operation Crusader, on 08 December 1941. The purpose of Operation Crusader was two-fold; to relieve Tobruk and destroy the German Afrika Korps. First part of the conflict was a success, the second a failure. The battle took place between the Egyptian border and El Agheila in Libya.
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