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Wiki has an unusually good article on Operation Sonnenblume https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sonnenblume, very detailed and from what I've read from in other sources quite accurate.

What I want to know is given the resources at Cyrcom disposal, not what went to Greece or anything, could Cyrcom have done much better than OTL?

Just as a reminder of what was deployed forward of Tobruk:


  • 2nd Armoured division
    • 3 AB - 1 regt light tanks, 1 regt cruiser tanks, 1 regt of Italian M13/40
    • 2 SG - 1 mot inf btn, 1 artillery regt, 1 AT regt , 1 MG coy
    • 3rd Indian Motor Brigade (chopped to 2nd AD in April) - 3 mot inf btns


  • 9th AIF Division
    • 2 Infantry Brigades
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