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==Tel el Eisa==

==Tel el Eisa==

On the night of 10/11 July, the Australian 9th Division attacked the 60th ''Sabratha'' Infantry Division defending Tel el Eisa. The German 621st Radio Intercept Company and 835 Italians from the ''Sabratha'' are captured.  The attacking 2nd/48th Battalion, under Lieutenant-Colonel Heathcote Hammer, had been greatly assisted by the supporting fire from 100 artillery guns. The next day, a battalion from the [[7th Bersaglieri Regiment]], under Lieutenant-Colonel Ugo Scirocco, counterattacks and recaptures part of Tel el Eisa along with thirteen Australians. <ref>According to the 2nd/48th Battalion War Diary: ''"[a]t approx 2000 hrs enemy tks-number unknown-and inf attacked D Coy front. They overrun posn and enemy inf forced D Coy to withdraw and occupied their psn."''</ref>The Bersaglieri suffers heavy casualties, but their attack allows the ''Trieste'' Infantry Division to send forward a company of tanks from Major Gabriele Verri's 11th Armoured Battalion that halts the Australians.

On the night of 10/11 July, the Australian 9th Division attacked the 60th ''Sabratha'' Infantry Division defending Tel el Eisa. The German 621st Radio Intercept Company and 835 Italians from the ''Sabratha'' are captured.  The attacking 2nd/48th Battalion, under Lieutenant-Colonel Heathcote Hammer, had been greatly assisted by the supporting fire from 100 artillery guns. The next day, a battalion from the [[7th Bersaglieri Regiment]], under Lieutenant-Colonel Ugo Scirocco, counterattacks and recaptures part of Tel el Eisa along with thirteen Australians. <ref>According to the 2nd/48th Battalion War Diary: ''"[a]t approx 2000 hrs enemy tks-number unknown-and inf attacked D Coy front. They overrun posn and enemy inf forced D Coy to withdraw and occupied their psn."''</ref>The Bersaglieri suffers heavy casualties, but their attack allows the ''Trieste'' Infantry Division to send forward a company of tanks from Major Gabriele Verri's 11th Armoured Battalion that halts the Australians.<ref>"That afternoon Italian tanks counter-attacked both Australian battalions in an attempt to retake Hill 33 near the coast. Maj. Gabriele Verri, commanding 11th Armd. Bn. of the Trieste Motorised Division, sent a company of M13 and M14 tanks into the assault under Capt. Vittorio Bulgarelli." War in the Desert, Neil D. Orpen, p.367, Purnell, 1971</ref>

== Notes ==

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[[Category:World War II Battles]]

[[Category:World War II Battles]]