Operation Battleaxe, 1941

found : BBC website, Oct. 4, 2010 WW2 people's war fact file : Operation Battleaxe page (operation in which the Allied 13th Corps engaged the Deutsches Afrika Korps in a failed effort to relieve the siege of Tobruk in June of 1941; Operation Battleaxe was the second attempt to relieve the siege of Tobruk following the failed Operation Brevity in May of 1941)

found : PBS website, Oct. 4, 2010 The war, North Africa page (Operation Battleaxe began on June 15, 1941 with a frontal attack through the Halfaya Pass toward Sollum in an effort to remove the Germans from Tobruk; the operation was over by June 17 with the British armoured troops losing 91 tanks in the battle)