Operation Skorpion

Operation Skorpion (Unternehmen Skorpion) daga 26 zuwa 27 ga Mayu 1941, wani aikin soji ne a lokacin [Kamfen ɗin Hamada ta Yamma]] na Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu. Sojojin Axis ne suka gudanar da aikin a ƙarƙashin jagorancin Kanar Maximilian von Herff da British da ke ƙarƙashin Laftanar-Janar William] "Strafer" Gott. An kai harin mayar da martani kan mukaman Birtaniyya a Halfaya Pass a arewa maso yamma Masar, wanda aka kama a lokacin Operation Brevity (15–16 May). Unternehmen Skorpion shine hari na biyu da Rommel ya umarta a Afirka (ban da Siege na Tobruk).

Skorpion ya kori turawan Ingila daga Halfaya Pass tare da tilasta musu yin ritaya zuwa yankin daga Buq Buq zuwa Sofafi. Jamusawa da Italiya sun ƙarfafa hanyar wucewa kuma sun gina wasu wurare masu ƙarfi a baya zuwa Sidi Azeiz a matsayin yankunan kashe tanki, a shirye su sake fuskantar wani harin Birtaniya. Baturen ya ci gaba da shirye-shiryen Operation Battleaxe (15–17 Yuni) amma wata gazawar Birtaniyya mai tsada ce ta kai ga korar [General (United Kingdom) | Janar]] Sir [[Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl] Wavell|Archibald Wavell]], Babban Kwamandan Gabas ta Tsakiya da sauran manyan hafsoshi.

Bayani

Bayan nasarar da Birtaniyya ta samu a kan Italiya Sojoji na 10 a cikin Operation Compass, Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW) , babban kwamandan soji) ya fara Unternehmen Sonnenblume (Operation Sunflower), aikin Deutsches Afrika Korps(DAK, Janarleutnant Erwin Rommel) zuwa Libya don ƙarfafa ragowar sojojin na 10. Rommel ya kai hari a lokaci daya, inda ya kori Birtaniya daga Cyrenaica zuwa kan iyakar Masar, sai dai tashar jiragen ruwa na [Tobruk], inda aka fara watanni tara. A ranar 8 ga Afrilu, rukunin na gaba na Jamus sun isa Derna gabas da Jebel Akhdar amma wasu rukunin sun kare da ruwa da mai a Tengeder. An aika da wani ginshiƙi na leƙen asiri, tanki, bindigu da makaman bindigu don toshe hanyar gabas daga Tobruk kuma a ranar 10 ga Afrilu, Rommel ya sanya Suez Canal ya zama manufar DAK. Za a hana fita daga Tobruk kuma washegari tashar ta kasance an saka hannun jari; Sashin binciken bincike na 3 ya ci gaba da zuwa Bardia kuma an aika da rundunar hadin gwiwa zuwa Sollum, kimanin 15 km (9.3 mi) zuwa cikin Masar, don kokarin isa Mersa Matruh. Rundunar da aka inganta ta Mobile Force (Brigadier William Gott) ta gudanar da aikin jinkiri a kan Axis a kan iyakar da ke kusa da Sollum da Fort Capuzzo daga Halfaya Pass zuwa gabas zuwa Sidi Barrani. Hare-haren na farko na Italo-Jamus an yi nasarar aiwatarwa amma matsalolin samar da kayayyaki sun sa ba a iya yin gaba fiye da iyakar Masar. Sojojin Axis sun shagaltu da kewayen Tobruk, yayin da Birtaniya suka fara sake gina ƙarfinsu a Masar.

Manazarta

• Harrison, F. (1999) [1996]. Tobruk: The Great Siege Reassessed (Brockhampton Press ed.). London: Arms and Armour Press. ISBN 978-1-86019-986-8.