Combeforce

Combeforce

Bayanai
Iri military unit (en) Fassara
Tarihi
Ƙirƙira 1940

Combeforce ko Combe Force wani ginshiƙi ne na rundunar sojojin Burtaniya a lokacin yakin duniya na biyu, wanda Laftanar-Karnar John Combe ya ba da umarni. Ya ƙunshi sassa na 7th Armored Division (Major-Janar Sir Michael O'Moore Creagh) na Yammacin Hamada. Yunkurin ci gaban Birtaniyya a lokacin Operation Compass (9 Disamba 1940 – 9 ga Fabrairu 1941) ya tilastawa Sojojin Italiya na 10 (10ª Armata) barin Cyrenaica, lardin gabashin Libya. A ƙarshen watan Janairu, Birtaniya ta sami labarin cewa Italiyanci suna komawa daga Benghazi, a kan hanyar bakin teku (Litoranea Balbo kwanan nan ya sake suna Via Balbia bayan mutuwar Italo Balbo, Gwamna Janar na Libya). An aike da runduna ta 7 da ke dauke da makamai domin dakile ragowar Sojojin ta 10 ta hanyar bi ta cikin hamada, kudu da Jebel Akhdar (Green Mountain) ta Msus da Antelat, yayin da runduna ta 6 ta Australiya ta bi Italiya a kan titin bakin teku, arewacin kasar. jebel.[1]

  1. Arthur, Douglas (2003). Forty Men – Eight Horses. Cambridge: Vanguard Press. ISBN 978-1-84386-070-9.