The Battle of Gazala, was fought during the Western Desert Campaign of which time period, west of the port of Tobruk in Libya, from 26 May to 21 June 1942, Axis troops of the "Panzerarmee Afrika", "Generaloberst" Erwin Rommel, a German general and military theorist?
Battle of Gazala The Battle of Gazala (near the modern town of "Ayn al Ghazālah") was fought during the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War, west of the port of Tobruk in Libya, from 26 May to 21 June 1942. Axis troops of the "Panzerarmee Afrika" ("Generaloberst" Erwin Rommel), consisted of German and Italian units. Allied forces (Commander-in-Chief Middle East, General Sir Claude Auchinleck), were mainly British, Indian, South African and Free French.
3rd Panzer Division (Wehrmacht) The 3rd Panzer Division (English: 3rd Tank Division ) was an armoured division in the German Army, the Wehrmacht, during World War II.