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((Short description|Town in Cyrenaica, Libya))
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'''Beda Fomm''' is a small coastal town in southwestern [[Cyrenaica]], [[Libya]]. It is located between the much larger port city [[Benghazi]] to its north-west and the larger town of [[El Agheila]] further to the south-west. Beda Fomm is known mainly for being the site of the final engagement of [[Operation Compass]] in the [[Second World War]].

== World War II ==
((Main|Battle of Beda Fomm))

[[Image:AfricaMap1.jpg|thumb|((center|The Italian Offensive and [[Operation Compass]] 13 September, 1940 – 7 February, 1941))]]
In late January 1941, during Operation Compass, the British learned that the Italians were evacuating [[Cyrenaica]] by way of Beda Fomm. The [[7th Armoured Division (United Kingdom)|7th Armoured Division]] was dispatched to intercept the [[Tenth Army (Italy)|10th Army]]. Half way to their destination, it was evident that the division together was too slow and Combeforce, a flying column was sent on the direct route across the desert. On 5 February 1941, Combeforce arrived to cut off the retreating remnants of the 10th Army. The following day, the Italians arrived and attacked but failed to break through the blockade. The fighting was close and often hand-to-hand; at one point, a regimental sergeant major captured an Italian tank by hitting the commander over the head with the butt of his rifle. The final effort came 7 February, when 20 Italian [[Fiat M13/40]] tanks broke through the thin cordon of riflemen and anti-tank guns, only to be stopped by field guns, yards from regimental HQ. The officer commanding Italian forces was General [[Giuseppe Tellera]], who was mortally wounded and Lieutenant-General [[Ferdinando Cona]] assumed command, only to be captured by the British. After that failure, with the rest of the 7th Armoured arriving and the [[6th Australian Division]] bearing down on them from Benghazi, the Italians surrendered.((sfn|Playfair|1957|pp=356–362)) A fictional version of the battle may be found in [[C.S. Forester]]'s short story "An Egg for the Major", in the collection ''Gold from Crete'' (1941).((sfn|Forester|1941|pp=1–263))

==Footnotes==
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==References==
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* ((cite book |title=Gold from Crete: Ten Stories by C. S. Forester |last=Forester |first=C. S. |author-link=C. S. Forester |year=1941 |publisher=Little, Brown |location=Boston |oclc=403332036 ))
* ((cite book |ref=((harvid|Playfair|1957))
|first1=Major-General I. S. O. |last1=Playfair |author1-link=Ian Stanley Ord Playfair |first2=Commander G. M. S. |last2=with Stitt [[Royal Navy|RN]] |first3=Brigadier C. J. C. |last3=Molony |first4=Air Vice-Marshal S. E. |last4=Toomer |editor-last=Butler |editor-first=J. R. M. |editor-link=James Ramsay Montagu Butler |series=History of the Second World War, United Kingdom Military Series |title=The Mediterranean and Middle East: The Early Successes Against Italy (to May 1941) |volume=I |year=1957 |orig-year=1954 |publisher=[[HMSO]] |location=London |oclc=888934805 |display-authors=1))
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==See also==
* [[Western Desert Campaign]]

[[Category:Port cities and towns in Libya]]
[[Category:World War II sites in Libya]]

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