DTN News - WW2: Indian Troops During Operation Battleaxe on August 6 1941

DTN News - WW2: Indian Troops During Operation Battleaxe on August 6 1941

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 11, 2013:  Indian troops, during Operation Battleaxe on August 6, 1941. An Indian infantry division was involved in the first attempt to remove Reverend Major Bachs' forces out of Halfaya Pass - an important position between the Egypt and Libyan border. 

The latter was then an Italian colony. Bachs was a German priest and therefore had a religious title, as well a military rank.

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