4 real historical locations · Egypt, Libya
A 1967 American war film about a mission to blow up Rommel's fuel depot at Tobruk before the El Alamein offensive — using German-Jewish soldiers from Palestine disguised as prisoners escorted by British Commandos through the Libyan desert.
CinemaMapped has mapped 4 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning Egypt, Libya.
The 2008 Czech-Slovak film follows Czechoslovak soldiers in the British Eighth Army defending Tobruk during the German siege of 1941 — one of the forgotten A...
The Siege of Tobruk (April-November 1941) lasted 241 days. The garrison of 14,000 men — including over 2,000 Czechoslovaks — held the port against Rommel's Afrika Korps. The Czech soldiers, fighting in exile for a cou...
View location →The target of the Allied raid: Rommel's fuel depot at Tobruk harbour. If destroyed, the Afrika Korps advance into Egypt and toward Suez grinds to a halt.
Operation Agreement (13 September 1942) aimed to destroy Tobruk's fuel facilities. It was a catastrophic failure; most raiders were killed or captured. The film dramatises an alternative mission.
View location →A small Allied team including German-Jewish soldiers of the SIG (Special Interrogation Group) begins their long drive across the desert disguised as German P...
The Special Interrogation Group was a real British unit of German-speaking Jewish soldiers from Palestine. They infiltrated German lines using captured vehicles and uniforms.
View location →The raiding column crosses hundreds of miles of open desert under cover of their German disguise, navigating dunes and escarpments to approach Tobruk from th...
The Long Range Desert Group pioneered navigation across the Libyan Desert. The LRDG used sun compasses and dead reckoning to cross terrain with no roads or landmarks.
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