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Operation Compass

Took place on December 9, 1940

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The 86th anniversary falls on December 9, 2026, in 46 days.

Operation Compass (also Italian: Battaglia della Marmarica) was the first large British military operation of the Western Desert Campaign (1940–1943) during the Second World War.

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