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The year opened in Libya with the British Eighth Army under General Ritchie still pursuing Rommel's mixed force of German Afrika Korps and Italians toward Tripoli. On Jan. 1, 1942, the Imperial forces had reached Agedabia, south of Bengazi. On entering Cyrenaica in mid-November 1941 the British...
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