Observed arrival · 2026-10-10
North Africa Campaign Archive: a dated tactical atlas
An interactive archive maps the North African campaign from 1940 to 1943, with battle chronology, formations, unit actions and linked sources.
- For
- Readers tracing North African campaign operations
- Worth noticing
- The atlas lists 199 geographic places, 221 formation tracks and 792 dated unit nodes.
Field notes
Readers can move the campaign timeline by week, select operations, and inspect formations and dated unit actions on a map with pan, zoom and route layers. The archive lists 199 geographic places, 221 formation tracks and 792 dated unit nodes. Its source list includes official histories and museum materials alongside a transcribed Afrika Korps war diary. The extract identifies the Afrika Korps as the principal viewpoint but does not show how competing records are reconciled.
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