Battle of Deir ez-Zor | |||||||
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Part of the Syria-Lebanon Campaign of World War II | |||||||
Map of Syria and Lebanon during World War II | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Henry Wilson William Slim | Henri Dentz | ||||||
The Battle of Deir ez-Zor was part of the Allied invasion of Syria during the Syria-Lebanon campaign in World War II.
The Battle of Deir ez-Zor is noted for the bold outflanking tactics employed by Allied field commander William "Bill" Slim of Iraq Command. These tactics presaged Slim's employment of similar tactics in 1945 while commanding the British Fourteenth Army in Burma.