LONDON -- Britain's famed siege port of Tobruk fell today after an overwhelming, 24-hour assault by Col. Gen. Erwin Rommel's forces, a disaster which might upset the United Nations' whole war strategy ...

With the success of Hitler’s North Africa commander, Erwin Rommel, in the Battle of Tobruk, and the momentum swinging toward the Nazis, Rauff and his SS subordinates were assigned to the Africa ...

For the British it was utter, humiliating defeat. Tobruk, the same battle-scarred port that last year held out for eight months against Axis besiegers, succumbed to one day’s attack. Tobruk fell ...

Around fallen Tobruk the man-made sandstorms, kicked up by tanks scouring the desert, died down in little dunes beside the gridded tracks. Torn barbed wire marked the silent graves of Knightsbridge, ...

Battle of Tobruk is fought in The Desert Rats as a followup, but not a sequel, to The Desert Fox, the 1951 Field Marshal Rommel feature. Picture is a rather impersonal account of warfare that lacks ...

In May 1940, Captain Peter Vaux fought bravely in the first British tank battle of the war – seeing his friends killed at Arras as they tried to stop Rommel’s panzers sweeping through northern France ...

Part One: France 1940 -- The break-through on the Meuse -- Closing the trap -- The break-through on the Somme -- Pursuit to Cherbourg -- Part Two: The war in Africa -- First year -- Graziani's ...

When Dennis Davis was fighting on the battlefield of Tobruk, he received a letter from home which he says left him “broken”. on March 25, 1941. His story, and that of thousands of other Australian ...

Australian helmer Phillip Noyce is prepping Rats of Tobruk, a World War II feature inspired by experiences his father shared of a brave band of untrained Oz soldiers. Nascent Canberra- and Los Angeles ...