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British 8th Army recaptures Benghazi 70 years ago today (1942)

November 20, 20121940s, World War IIadmin


Video: Nov. 20, 1942 (at 7:45)

(Friday, November 20, 1942, part of the Western Desert Campaign of World War II) — Benghazi changed hands for the fifth and positively final time today as British forces occupied the Libyan city.

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