Mersa Matruh
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| Mersa Matruh | ||
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| Date: | June 26, 1942 | |
| Defender: | Great Britain | |
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| Attacker: | German | |
| Game Mode(s): | CQ, COOP | |
| Size(s): | 16, 32, 64 | |
| Created by: | Lobo | |
In the strategic seesaws of the desert war in the Western Desert, fortune was once more in the favour of the German Africa Korps. With the advantage of having air supremacy Rommel unleashed his Panzer divisions and with military brilliance, the Africa Korps swept eastwards. Benghazi and Gazala were re-taken and the seemingly bastion of defence Tobruk with all its stores of fuel and supplies and with a loss of 30,000 prisoners, capitulated on the 21 June. It was now left for the fragmented 13th and 30th Corps to delay the Panzers advance and to allow the British forces to regroup at El Alamein. Mersa Matruh, the one remaining obstacle, was surrounded and cut off. In the darkness of the 28 June 1942, the besieged British Troops attempted their breakout.
