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Title
Point of No Return
Description
As part of the drive to open a corridor to Tobruk, the 2nd New Zealand Division was ordered to seize the heights dominating the eastern approaches to Ed Duda. Resistance was surprisingly feeble, as most Germans surrendered rather quickly. In their exuberance of victory the New Zealanders failed …
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Source
Publisher
Date
1941-11-23
Scenario#
42
Scenario Description
As part of the drive to open a corridor to Tobruk, the 2nd New Zealand Division was ordered to seize the heights dominating the eastern approaches to Ed Duda. Resistance was surprisingly feeble, as most Germans surrendered rather quickly. In their exuberance of victory the New Zealanders failed to consolidate and recon for the inevitable German counterattack. Instead, they continued to advance confidently in dispersed order – and walked right up to further German positions well concealed in wadis and at the lip of the escarpment. .
Location
Sidi Rezegh, Libya
Battle Name
Battle Narrative
Operation Crusader was a military operation of the Western Desert Campaign during the Second World War by the British Eighth Army, against the Axis forces in North Africa commanded by Generalleutnant Erwin Rommel. The operation was intended to by-pass Axis defences on the Egyptian–Libyan frontier, defeat the Axis armoured forces and relieve the 1941 Siege of Tobruk.
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Combatants
German
New Zealand
Additional Information
Scenario Type = Standard
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