List of North African Campaign battles

This is a listing of World War II battles occurring during the North African Campaign and is sometimes known as the "Desert War". This includes the campaigns in Egypt and Libya (often referred to as the Western Desert campaign or the "Egypt-Libya Campaign") and those campaigns in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia (usually referred to as the Tunisia campaign. This is not a comprehensive list of all engagements and generally does not cover isolated skirmishes of units smaller than a company in size.

This is part of the more comprehensive List of World War II Battles.

1940

1941

1942

1943

Footnotes
  1. "Battle of the Marmarica". Time Magazine. No. 23 December 1940. December 23, 1940. Retrieved 2007-12-17.
  2. "War in North Africa 1940-1942" Archived 2008-02-13 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "History of the 7th Armored, List of Battles, 1941". Archived from the original on 2012-08-02.
  4. Playfair, V.II pg. 162
  5. Rommel, pg. 137
  6. Playfair, V. II pg. 163
  7. "History of the 7th Armored, List of Battles, 1942"
  8. "Battle of Gazala"
  9. "The Battle of El Alamein"
  10. Playfair, V IV Map 31
  11. Playfair, V IV Map 34
  12. Playfair, V IV Pg 446

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