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Australian troops captured...

history · 23 March 1941 · 84 years ago

Australian troops captured Giarabub in southeastern Libya. The commander of the Italian garrison, Lieutenant Colonel Castagna, was captured and would spent the rest of the war as a prisoner of war in India. 

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