A ranar 17 ga Yuni, ta amfani da hedkwatar rundunar sojojin Birtaniya ta 6, an kafa hedkwatar WDF (Lieutenant-General O'Connor) don kula da dukkan sojojin da ke fuskantar Italiya a Cyrenaica, wani karfi na kimanin mutane 10,000, tare da jiragen sama, tankuna da bindigogi. O'Connor ya fara shirya hare-haren hare-hare a kan iyakar kuma ya fara mamaye ƙasar ta hanyar ƙirƙirar "jock columns", ƙungiyoyi masu haɗaka masu haɗaka da aka kafa a kan raka'a na 7th Armored Division. Wadannan ƙananan, masu horar da su, sun yi hare-haren farko a kan Italiyanci da kuma wurare masu karfi a fadin iyakar.
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