Operasi Compass

Operasi Compass
Bagian dari Kampanye Gurun Barat pada Perang Dunia II
Tanggal 9 December 1940 – 9 February 1941 Lokasi Sidi Barrani, Mesir sampai El Agheila, Libya Hasil Kemenangan Sekutu
Pihak terlibat
Britania Raya India Britania Australia Prancis Merdeka	Italia
Tokoh dan pemimpin
Archibald Wavell Henry Maitland Wilson Richard O'Connor	Rodolfo Graziani Italo Gariboldi Mario Berti Giuseppe Tellera † Pietro Maletti † Annibale Bergonzoli (POW)
Kekuatan
36,000 prajurit 120 meriam 275 tanks 142 pesawat	150,000 prajurit 1,600 meriam 600 tankettes and tanks 331 pesawat
Korban
500 tewas 1,373 luka-luka 55 hilang 26 pesawat	3,000 tewas 133,298 ditangkap 420 tanks 845 meriam 564 pesawat (termasuk bala bantuan)

Templat:Kotak Kampanye Gurun Barat

Operasi Compass adalah operasi militer Sekutu besar pertama dari Kampanye Gurun Barat (1940–1943) pada Perang Dunia II. Pasukan Inggris dan negara-negara Persemakmuran lainnya menyerang pasukan Italia di barat Mesir dan Cyrenaica, timur provinsi Libya, dari Desember 1940 sampai Februari 1941, dengan kesuksesan besar.

Referensi

Buku

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• Wavell, Archibald (13 June 1946). Operations in the Middle East from August, 1939 to November, 1940. Wavell's Official Despatches. published in "No. 37609". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 Juni 1946. hlm. 2997–3006.
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• Wavell, Archibald (3 July 1946). Operations in the Middle East from 7th February, 1941 to 15th July, 1941. Wavell's Official Despatches. published in "No. 37638". The London Gazette (Supplement). 2 Juli 1946. hlm. 3423–3444.

Tesis

• Christie, Howard R. (1999). Fallen Eagles: The Italian 10th Army in the Opening Campaign in the Western Desert, June 1940 – December 1940 (MA). Fort Leavenworth, KS: U. S. Army Command and General Staff College. OCLC 465212715. A116763. Diakses tanggal 25 March 2015. Pemeliharaan CS1: Ref menduplikasi bawaan (link) Diarsipkan 2015-02-16 di Wayback Machine.

Situs web

• Harding, J. (BGS) (23 February 1941). "Appendix E, H.Q. Cyrenaica Command Intelligence Summary No. 6 (23 Feb 41) WO 169/1258". The National Archives. Diakses tanggal 15 March 2015. Pemeliharaan CS1: Ref menduplikasi bawaan (link)

Bacaan tambahan

Buku

• Buckingham, William F. (2012) [2008]. Tobruk: The Great Siege, 1941–42. Stroud: The History Press. ISBN 978-0-75244-501-4.
• Churchill, Winston (1949). Their Finest Hour. The Second World War. Vol. II (Edisi 1st). Houghton Mifflin. OCLC 396145.
• Coulthard-Clark, Chris (2001). The Encyclopaedia of Australia's Battles. Crow's Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1-86508-634-7.
• Grey, Jeffrey (2008) [1990]. A Military History of Australia (Edisi 3rd). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-51137-806-5.
• Latimer, Jon (2013) [2000]. Operation Compass 1940: Wavell's Whirlwind Offensive (Edisi reprint). Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 1-85532-967-0.
• Montanelli, Indro (1982). L'Italia della disfatta (dalam bahasa Italian). Milano: Rizzoli editore. OCLC 252028214. Pemeliharaan CS1: Bahasa yang tidak diketahui (link)
• Rickard, J. N. (2010). Politics of Command: Lieutenant-General A. G. L. McNaughton and the Canadian Army, 1939–1943. Buffalo, Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 1-44264-002-2.
• Roy, Kaushik (2011). The Indian Army in the Two World Wars. History of War. Leiden: BRILL. ISBN 9-00421-145-4.
• Wahlert, Glenn (2010) [2006]. The Western Desert Campaign, 1940–41. Australian Army campaigns (Edisi Big Sky). Canberra, ACT: Army History Unit. ISBN 978-0-97576-692-7.
• Wayne, Ralph (2008). Aces, Warriors and Wingmen. Mississauga, Ont: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 1-28320-300-6.

Jurnal

• "Battle of the Marmarica". Time Magazine (23 December 1940). 23 December 1940. ISSN 0040-781X. Diarsipkan dari asli tanggal 2008-04-11. Diakses tanggal 17 December 2007.

Surat kabar

• Percy, H. L. (23 January 1941). "British Capture 14,000 Men, push 100 miles beyond Tobruk". The Pittsburgh Press. Pittsburgh, US. Diakses tanggal 11 April 2015.

Laporan

• Thompson, D. H. (2002). Discarded Victory: North Africa, 1940–1941 (PDF) (Report). USAWC strategy research project. Carlisle Barracks, PA: U.S. Army War College. OCLC 50872739. Diarsipkan dari asli (PDF) tanggal 2015-09-24. Diakses tanggal 9 July 2015.

Tesis

• Dando, N. (2014). The Impact of Terrain on British Operations and Doctrine in North Africa 1940–1943 (PhD). Plymouth University. OCLC 885436735. Diakses tanggal 25 March 2015.

Situs web

• Paterson, Ian A. "History of the British 7th Armoured Division: Beda Fomm". Diarsipkan dari asli tanggal 29 September 2007. Diakses tanggal 2 January 2008.

Pranala luar

• La battaglia della Marmarica
• A few memories of Corporal Nazzareno Ganino of the Sabratha Division
• The Italian Army in Egypt during World War II
• The Engagement at Derna, AWM
• Animated Map of Operation Compass Diarsipkan 2015-04-02 di Wayback Machine.
• Operation Compass Desert War.net