Map of Tobruk - with fortifications

Hi All,

Haven't been around for a while, but I am now researching my WW2 family members.

I am wondering if anyone has a map of Tobruk which shows the positions of the town, blue line, red line, water tower etc?

I have the war dairy for around the time my great uncle (2/23rd) was wounded (about 17 May 1941 near/under the water tower) and I would be interested to follow the description on a map.

Thanks for your help

Liesl

 

I posted this link in your question of coys, it should have been this post sorry....

link contains maps, hope they help..
THE SECOND BATTALION THE BLACK WATCH AT TOBRUK

 

Thank you, yes very helpful!

 

Liesl and Ray, in this webpage SDP: The North African CMAK Map Project I found interesting items:

Jan.

 

Super map Jan, thanks!!
(I've been looking for a detailed map for some time.)

 

Thank you for the map! it is awesome

Liesl

 

Ok since my foreign language skills are not good (non existant actually!) I wanted to just confirm some of the places on the map:

Assumptions:
Bir Baccara is the water tower?
Bir el-Giaser or Bir el-Mdauuar is hill 209??
The red line is the most in land line?
The blue line is the broken line that runs in front of Bir Baccara and Fort Pilastrino??

Thanks guys - I just want to get it right!!

Liesl

 

Freebird and Liesl, you are wellcome!

These maps, in http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/web03/atlases/ww2%20europe/WWIIEuropeIndex.html also could be interesting:

36 Libya, Initial Dispostions, German-Italian Attack, 26-27 May 1942
37 Libya, Decisive German-Italian Breakout, 12-13 June 1942






Jan.

 

Thanks again jan,

These are awesome maps as well! Very helpful for what i am trying to achieve.

Liesl

 

A pleasure for me, if my searchs can helps you in your project!

Take also a carefully look at these New Zealand website http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/facets/search?document=&corpus=&searchtext=tobruk&submit=Search









Jan.

 

http://www.cgsc.edu/carl/download/csipubs/9thaustr/9th_part1.pdf
Combined Arms Research Library
These 2 URLs are in fact containing the same article. But
PDF version's conclusion is mission, and
HTML version has some maps mission.

There was a battle happened on Easter at Tobruk in 1941,
the 1st defeat for Romel, also the wehrmacht during the whole WWII.

Those defense lines in the Tobruk area can be seen on the map above.
(A PDF map can be magnified easily with ADOBE reader)