Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: A rabi na biyu na 1941, an mayar da hankali ga Australiya I Corps a Siriya da Lebanon don sake gina ƙarfinsa da kuma shirya don ƙarin ayyukan a Gabas ta Tsakiya. Bayan barkewar yaki a cikin Pacific, yawancin sassan rundunar, gami da Rukunin na 6 da na 7, sun koma Ostiraliya a farkon 1942 don magance barazanar Japan ga Ostiraliya. Gwamnatin Ostiraliya ta amince da buƙatun Burtaniya da na Amurka don riƙe sashin na 9 na ɗan lokaci a Gabas ta Tsakiya don musayar ƙarin sojojin Amurka zuwa Ostiraliya da goyon bayan Burtaniya don ba da shawarar faɗaɗa RAAF zuwa runduna 73. Gwamnati ba ta yi niyyar cewa 9th Division za ta taka muhimmiyar rawa a cikin gwagwarmayar gwagwarmaya, kuma ba a aika da ƙarin ƙarfafawa ba. Dukkanin jiragen ruwa na RAN a cikin Bahar Rum an kuma janye su zuwa Pacific amma yawancin rukunin RAAF a Gabas ta Tsakiya sun kasance a cikin wasan kwaikwayo.A watan Yuni na 1942, an tura masu hallaka N-class hudu na Australiya zuwa Bahar Rum daga Tekun Indiya don shiga cikin Operation Vigorous, wanda ya kasance ƙoƙari ne na samar da tsibirin Malta daga Masar. Wannan aikin ya ƙare a cikin rashin nasara, kuma dole ne a nutsar da Nestor a ranar 16 ga Yuni bayan da aka yi masa bam a ranar da ta gabata. Bayan wannan aikin, masu hallaka guda uku da suka tsira sun koma Tekun Indiya. A tsakiyar 1942, sojojin Axis sun ci nasara da sojojin Commonwealth a Libya kuma sun ci gaba zuwa arewa maso yammacin Masar. A watan Yuni, Sojoji na takwas na Birtaniya sun tsaya a kusa da kilomita 100 a yammacin Alexandria, a kan hanyar jirgin kasa na El Alamein kuma an gabatar da 9th Division don ƙarfafa wannan matsayi. Manyan bangarorin Rukunin sun isa El Alamein a ranar 6 ga Yuli kuma an sanya Rukunin a sashin arewacin yankin Commonwealth. Rukunin na 9 ya taka muhimmiyar rawa a Yaƙin El Alamein na Farko wanda ya dakatar da ci gaban Axis, kodayake ta hanyar asarar rayuka masu yawa, gami da duka 2/28th Infantry Battalion wanda aka tilasta masa mika wuya a ranar 27 ga Yuli. Bayan wannan...  Tambaya: da yawa masu hallaka sun kasance kuma sun koma Tekun Indiya?
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