Early in 1941, the German supreme command dispatched the Africa Corps to aid its Italian allies in Libya. By the summer of 1942, these well equipped troops had pushed the numerically vastly superior British out of Libya and back into Egypt. After the battle of el-Alamein, however, the exhausted German-Italian army was forced to withdraw.
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