Siege of Tobruk | WW2 Documentary
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- This documentary was created as part of a Staffordshire University Film and TV Production Module.
This is my first attempt at creating an authentic historical documentary and involved some of my first attempts at animation and full-on script writing.
The following people helped in creating this documentary by providing research, writing, animations, feedback & voice over talent:
Hannah Humpage,
Klaudija Markovic,
Jack Pedley &
Tom Roberts
They held out for 8 months, not 5 and then they left and were replace by more troops more supplies and equipment , but the Australians had left and Tobruk fell,
The Australians were replaced by 70th Division & the Polish Carpathian Brigade in September & October, 1941. Tobruk was relieved as a result of Operation Crusade in late November, 1941.
Tobruk was later captured by axis troops, but in June, 1942.
Where do you get your nonsense from?
@@dovetonsturdee7033 The Australians were NOT reliveved byt The :Polish, YES the Polish did send a force of 6,000 that started to arrive in late august, with total Polish casualties of 107 (KIA, WOUNDED and MISSING) the Poles did not do a lot of the fighting and they were NOT the mainstay when the last Autralians left, which was IN NOVEMBER, yes the Australians started leaving in AUGUST! When they were there the Australians had no air cover and little aritillery and some British tanks, they were rplace by thousands of South Africans, Moe British and 6,000 Poles and some czecks, the garrison was THOUSANDS more than when the Australians were there, they had aritillery now, the desert air force was pre eminent, the supplies were excessive and yet FINALLY tey could NOT hole, with more men, air power and resources they FAILED where the Australians did not falter so the question has to be WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR INOFORMATION FROM!
@@HenriHattar Are you off your head? The Australian troops in Tobruk were withdrawn by the Royal Navy between 19 & w9 August, 1941. The lift took out 5,040 men of the 18th Australian Infantry Brigade and the Indian 18th King Edward's Own Cavalry, on three destroyers, a minelayer and one destroyer carrying supplies, with cruiser escorts as anti-aircraft ships. A cruiser and a destroyer were damaged. At the same time, 6,116 men of the Polish Carpathian Independent Rifle Brigade and Czechoslovak 11th Infantry Battalion, together with 1,297 long tons (1,318 t) of stores were landed.
From 19-27 September, the British 16th Infantry Brigade, 70th Infantry Division (Major-General Ronald Scobie), the HQ of the 32nd Army Tank Brigade and the 4th Royal Tank Regiment with 6,308 men and more 2,000 long tons (2,032 t) of supplies arrived. More Australians, 5,989 men of the 24th Australian Infantry Brigade then left, with no loss of ships.
From 12-25 October, the rest of the 70th Infantry Division was delivered and most of the Australians removed. although some Australians, 2/13th Australian Battalion, and two companies of the 2/15th Battalion did remain in Tobruk. Command of the garrison passed from Morshead to Scobie.
There were no South Africans involved until the time of the second siege, of which you are apparently unaware, which was between 17 & 21 June, 1942, when the port was taken.
'WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR INOFORMATION FROM!' Basically, from every military history of the North African campaign of WW2.
HenriHattar,
That’s unfair to the South Africans who defended Tobruk
in 1942, & you know it well.
When the Diggers were in 1941-Tobruk the port-city was a fortress defended by the Italian-built fortifications, captured intact.
During the nazi siege there was no need to get out except to launch raids against Rommel.
The place was also well supplied by sea.
But in 1942, Tobruk was a busy point of passage for troops & supplies, with many of the fortifications thrown down or demolished.
So the S-A were devoid of every defense available to the Aussies.
@@HenriHattar When did I write that the Poles were the mainstay when the last Australians left? As to the rest of your comments, I refer you to the Australian War Memorial site for independent confirmation of my comments. - 'Half the Australian garrison was relieved in August, the rest in September-October. However, 2/13 Battalion could not be evacuated and was still there when the siege was lifted on 10 December, the only unit present for the entire siege.'
If you would like more detail, here it is :- The Australian withdrawal began in the August non-moon period and from 19-29 August, 6,116 men of the Polish Carpathian Independent Rifle Brigade and Czechoslovak 11th Infantry Battalion and 1,297 long tons of stores were landed.
The navy took out 5,040 men of the 18th Australian Infantry Brigade and the Indian 18th King Edward's Own Cavalry, on three destroyers, a minelayer and one destroyer carrying supplies, with cruiser escorts as anti-aircraft ships, a cruiser and a destroyer being damaged.
From 19-27 September, the British 16th Infantry Brigade, 70th Infantry Division (Major-General Ronald Scobie), the HQ of the 32nd Army Tank Brigade and the 4th Royal Tank Regiment with 6,308 men and more 2,000 long tons of supplies arrived, while 5,989 men of the 24th Australian Infantry Brigade left, with no loss of ships.
From 12-25 October, the rest of the 70th Infantry Division was delivered and most of the Australians removed. Ship losses on normal delivery runs, led to the 2/13th Australian Battalion and two companies of the 2/15th Battalion remaining in Tobruk. Command of the garrison passed from Morshead to Scobie. Tobruk was relieved during Operation Crusader in late November, 1941.
The South Africans only arrived in Tobruk in mid June, 1942. As to air cover, Air Marshal Sir Peter Drummond (deputy to Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder), contended that it might prove impossible to provide fighter cover for the port, and so it turned out.
The South African force was around 33,000 men, of whom around 10,000 were not combat troops, 2nd South African having two rather than the normal three Brigades, supported by artillery and around 50 Valentine & Matilda tanks.
'WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR INOFORMATION FROM!' I get it from history books. Heaven alone knows where you get yours.
The information on the makeup of the Red and Blue lines is a bit skew whiff. It was the Red line that had the concrete posts , as made by the Italians. The Blue line was started, but certainly not complete . The Blue line was manned by Australian troops in a reserve capacity, and was a couple of miles behind the front line, the Red line. Memory can be a poor servant, but the Red line had about 130 to 150 concrete bunkers or posts in the 28 mile perimeter. Also gartison strength was reduced to about 23 K as soon as possible by Morshead, the Australian Major General in command of the Tobruk Garrison.
Hi Peter, haha really wish I would have had that info when I made this in University. 😆
But appreciate the information. Finding the exact details on this was rather difficult, just because a lot of sources seemed to mix up which Siege of Tobruk they were talking about as well as some focusing on solely the British, some the Australians, etc.
The people of eastern Libya loved and respected the British very much until the tyrant Gaddafi came from western Libya and obliterated everything... Why did Britain abandon eastern Libya?
Keep it up dude!! You need to look into 'Promo sm'!