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Operasi Compass
	Bagian dari Kampanye Gurun Barat pada Perang Dunia II
Tanggal	9 December 1940 – 9 February 1941
Lokasi	Sidi Barrani, Mesir sampai El Agheila, Libya
Hasil	Kemenangan Sekutu
Pihak terlibat
Britania Raya; India Britania Australia; Prancis Merdeka	Italia
Tokoh dan pemimpin
Archibald Wavell; Henry Maitland Wilson; Richard O'Connor	Rodolfo Graziani; Italo Gariboldi; Mario Berti; Giuseppe Tellera †; Pietro Maletti †; Annibale Bergonzoli (POW)
Kekuatan
36,000 prajurit; 120 meriam; 275 tanks; 142 pesawat	150,000 prajurit; 1,600 meriam; 600 tankettes and tanks; 331 pesawat
Korban
500 tewas; 1,373 luka-luka; 55 hilang; 26 pesawat	3,000 tewas; 133,298 ditangkap; 420 tanks; 845 meriam; 564 pesawat (termasuk bala bantuan)

Templat:Kotak Kampanye Gurun Barat

Operasi Compass adalah operasi militer Sekutu besar pertama dari Kampanye Gurun Barat (1940–1943) pada Perang Dunia II. Pasukan Inggris dan negara-negara Persemakmuran lainnya menyerang pasukan Italia di barat Mesir dan Cyrenaica, timur provinsi Libya, dari Desember 1940 sampai Februari 1941, dengan kesuksesan besar.

Catatan

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Referensi

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Tesis

Christie, Howard R. (1999). Fallen Eagles: The Italian 10th Army in the Opening Campaign in the Western Desert, June 1940 – December 1940 (Tesis MA). Fort Leavenworth, KS: U. S. Army Command and General Staff College. OCLC 465212715. A116763. http://cgsc.cdmhost.com/cdm/ref/collection/p4013coll2/id/597. Diakses pada 25 March 2015. Diarsipkan 2015-02-16 di Wayback Machine.

Situs web

Harding, J. (BGS) (23 February 1941). "Appendix E, H.Q. Cyrenaica Command Intelligence Summary No. 6 (23 Feb 41) WO 169/1258". The National Archives. Diakses tanggal 15 March 2015.

Bacaan tambahan

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Latimer, Jon (2013) [2000]. Operation Compass 1940: Wavell's Whirlwind Offensive (edisi ke-reprint). Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 1-85532-967-0.
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Jurnal

"Battle of the Marmarica". Time Magazine (23 December 1940). 23 December 1940. ISSN 0040-781X. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2008-04-11. Diakses tanggal 17 December 2007.

Surat kabar

Percy, H. L. (23 January 1941). "British Capture 14,000 Men, push 100 miles beyond Tobruk". The Pittsburgh Press. Pittsburgh, US. Diakses tanggal 11 April 2015.

Laporan

Thompson, D. H. (2002). Discarded Victory: North Africa, 1940–1941 (PDF) (Laporan). USAWC strategy research project. Carlisle Barracks, PA: U.S. Army War College. OCLC 50872739. Diarsipkan dari versi asli (PDF) tanggal 2015-09-24. Diakses tanggal 9 July 2015.