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'''Operation Compass''' was the first major [[World War II]] Allied military operation in the Western Desert Campaign. It resulted in British Commonwealth forces pushing across a great stretch of [[Libya]] and capturing over 100,000 Italian and Libyan soldiers with very few casualties of their own.

'''Operation Compass''' was the first major [[World War II]] Allied military operation in the Western Desert Campaign. It resulted in British Commonwealth forces pushing across a great stretch of [[Libya]] and capturing over 100,000 or 130,000 (depending on the source) Italian and Libyan soldiers with very few casualties of their own.

==Prelude==

==Prelude==