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1 To Kurt Lehmann
2 Well..
3 Battle of Beda Fomm
4 Stats

[edit] To Kurt Lehmann

"men" in force strengths is opposed to guns or tanks or aircraft, not to women

"killed" in casualties, because total casualties are killed+wounded+captured+missing

"India" because there were forces of the (British) Indian Army - specifically 4th Indian Division - involved in this campaign.

Richard Gadsden 12:41, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Well..

What else can they be if they are not men?

"....there were forces of the (British) Indian Army - specifically 4th Indian Division - involved in this campaign."

That doesn't change the fact that India was part of the British Empire and did not exist as an independent country. Thousands Indians also fought with the Japanese during WWII, but I don't see any mentionings about that in the Japanese side of the battle boxes of the Asian battles.

And I did not mean to remove the word killed, sorry for that.

[edit] Battle of Beda Fomm

Both this article and the Beda Fomm ones are pretty short. I think that, for now at least, the Battle of Beda Fomm can be a section in the main Operation Compass page. Oberiko 15:20, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stats

Forces for Italiens: 100K But somehow they got 130K captured. Did they spawn new soldiers during the battle by themselfs or is something hidden in the numbers? =) Zarkow 203.144.143.9 12:11, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

100K in the Battle of the Camps - Compass proper; casualties are for the whole Cyrenaica campaign. Richard Gadsden 20:25, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

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