North Africa
The Trento arrived in North Africa to reinforce the Italian Fifth Army following the Allied offensive Operation Compass, a counterattack by British and Commonwealth troops of the Western Desert Force in response to the Italian invasion of Egypt. The offensive resulted in the destruction of the Italian Tenth Army and the Allied occupation of the Italian province of Cyrenaica.
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