Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Ndị agha Australia buru ụzọ rụọ ọrụ na Operation Compass, nke na-aga nke ọma na Commonwealth na North Africa nke a na-eduzi n'etiti December 1940 na February 1941. Ọ bụ ezie na ndị 6th Division ejighi ngwa agha zuru oke, ọ rụzuru ọzụzụ ya na 14 Disemba, ọ tọhapụrụ ndị 4th Indian Division. N'iburu ọrụ nke ijide ebe ndị Italy siri ike nke British 7th Armored Division gafere n'oge ọ na-aga n'ihu, na Jenụwarị 3, nkewa ahụ banyere
Ihe na-eme na Bardia. Ọ bụ ezie na ndị agha nọ n'ogige ahụ karịrị ndị agha nọ n'ebe ahụ, ndị agha Australia, bụ́ ndị tanki na égbè ndị Britain na-akwado, gbagara n'ebe ndị agha Ịtali nọ ngwa ngwa. Imirikiti ndị na-agbachitere nyere na 5 Jenụwarị na ndị Australia were ndị mkpọrọ 40,000. Ngalaba nke 6 gbasoro ihe ịga nke ọma a site na ịwakpo ebe e wusiri ike nke Tobruk na 21 Jenụwarị, na-echekwa ya n'echi ya ma were ndị Italiantali 25,000. Mgbe nke a gachara, ndị Ọstrelia gara n'ebe ọdịda anyanwụ n'okporo ụzọ dị n'ụsọ oké osimiri ruo Cyrenaica ma weghara Benghazi na 4 Febụwarị. Ka ọnwa ahụ gasịrị, ewepụrụ Ngalaba nke 6 maka mbugharị na Gris ma dochie ya na Ngalaba nke 9 a na-enyochabeghị, nke weghaara ọrụ ndị agha na Cyrenaica.