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  • Battle of Kufra (1941)
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  • The Battle of Kufra (also spelled Koufra, or Cufra) was part of the World War II Allies Western Desert Campaign in the colony of Italian Libya, in the Libyan Desert of present day southeastern Libya. The battle resulted in the 1941 capture of the important but isolated oasis of Kufra by Free French Forces and the British Long Range Desert Group from Italian Fascist Axis forces.
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Partof
  • the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War
Date
  • --01-31
Commander
  • Captain Colonna
  • Colonel Leclerc
Casualties
  • 3
  • 4
  • 21
  • 282
Result
  • Allied victory
combatant
  • Italy
  • Free French
Place
  • Kufra, Libya
Conflict
  • Battle of Kufra
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  • The Battle of Kufra (also spelled Koufra, or Cufra) was part of the World War II Allies Western Desert Campaign in the colony of Italian Libya, in the Libyan Desert of present day southeastern Libya. The battle resulted in the 1941 capture of the important but isolated oasis of Kufra by Free French Forces and the British Long Range Desert Group from Italian Fascist Axis forces.
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