AUSSIES SCORE BIG WIN IN OPERATION COMPASS
Bardia, Eastern Libya • January 5, 1941 In June 1940 Italian dictator Benito Mussolini declared war on Great Britain and France and began building up forces in his North African colony of Libya. That September the Italian Tenth Army under Gen. Rodolfo Graziani invaded Egypt, a British colony to the east of Libya, threatening British…

