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Fighting off a dive bomber attack

1st September 1941: Tobruk comes under one of the heaviest raids yet

Sep 01, 2021
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A Tobruk air raid seen from across the bay.

Stalin was already pleading for Britain to open up a second front. But for the moment the only location where British ground forces were in constant contact with the Wehrmacht was a broken down Libyan port on the coast of North Africa.

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