Created by Tom Horn on 21 May 2010, Last Update on 21 May 2010

Bir Hakeim - 26 May 1942

Free French forces resist the Axis advance for 16 days, giving the retreating British Eighth Army enough time to reorganize, allowing them subsequently to halt the Axis advance at the First Battle of El Alamein.

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Tags : France,Germany,Italy,Libya,Land,Africa,Combat

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