1 real historical location · 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 1 real historical location where the story takes place, spanning 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...
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