Pengepungan Tobruk

Pengepungan Tobruk berlangsung selama 241 hari pada 1941, setelah pasukan Blok Poros maju ke Cyrenaica dari El Agheila dalam Operasi Sonnenblume melawan Pasukan Gurun Barat Inggris di Libya, pada Kampanye Gurun Barat (1940–1943) pada Perang Dunia Kedua. Pada akhir 1940, Inggris mengalahkan Tentara ke-10 Italia pada Operasi Compass (9 Desember 1940 – 9 Februari 1941) dan menjebak sisanya di Beda Fomm.

Pengepungan Tobruk
Bagian dari Kampanye Gurun Barat
Pasukan Australia sedang menduduki posisi garis depan di Tobruk
Tanggal 10 April – 27 November 1941 Lokasi Tobruk, Libya 32°04′34″N 23°57′41″E Hasil Kemenangan Sekutu
Pihak terlibat
Australia Britania Raya India Pasukan Bersenjata Polandia di Barat Pasukan Cekoslowakia Merdeka	Jerman Italia
Tokoh dan pemimpin
Leslie Morshead (April–September 1941) Ronald Scobie (September–November 1941)	Erwin Rommel
Kekuatan
27,000	35,000
Korban
5,989	12,296 74–150 pesawat

Templat:Kotak Kampanye Gurun Barat

Referensi

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Situs web

• "Appendix No. 30: Summary No. 2, entry for 16 April". 2/43 Infantry Battalion War Diary, April 1941 (PDF). Canberra: Australian War Memorial. hlm. 111–112. RCDIG1026557. Diakses tanggal 5 April 2015. 
• Miller, W. A. (1986). "The 9th Australian Division Versus the Africa Corps: An Infantry Division Against Tanks: Tobruk, Libya, 1941". Fort Leavenworth, KN: U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Combat Studies Institute. OCLC 815355690. Diakses tanggal 5 April 2015. 
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Pranala luar

• Polish Carpathian Brigade in the defence of Tobruk
• The Characteristic of Tobruk defence in 1941
• Australian War Memorial – Siege of Tobruk