Template:WWIIWesternDesertCampaign
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| World War II Western Desert operations of North African Campaign edit | ||
| Allied | Axis | |
| Organizational units | Western Desert Force British XIII Corps British Eighth Army Desert Air Force |
Panzer Army Afrika, PAA Afrika Korps, DAK |
| Principal operational units | British 7th Armoured Division Indian 4th Infantry Division Australian 9th Division New Zealand 2nd Division |
15th Panzer-Division 5th Light Division / 21st Panzer-Division 90th Leichte-Division 164th Infanterie-Division |
| Commanders | O'Connor Wavell Auchinleck Cunningham Montgomery |
Rommel Crüwell Bastico Graziani |
| Key weapons | Matilda tank Crusader tank QF 25 pdr gun-howitzer |
PzKpfw III PzKpfw IV Sdkfz 232 Armoured Car 88 mm gun |
| Battles and operations | ||
| Compass – Tobruk – Brevity – Battleaxe – Crusader – Gazala – Bir Hakeim – 1st Alamein – Alam Haifa – 2nd Alamein | ||
