Operation Caravan

Operation Caravan
Part of Operation Agreement, during the Second World War

Tutira III of T1 Patrol was driven by Captain Nick Wilder during the attack on Barce's airfield.[1]
DateSeptember 1942
Location
Cyrenaica, Italian Libya, North Africa
32°29′12″N 20°50′02″E / 32.48667°N 20.83389°E / 32.48667; 20.83389
Result Allied Victory
Belligerents
 New Zealand
 United Kingdom		  Italy
Strength
47 Unknown
Casualties and losses
Wounded: 8
Captured: 10
Missing: 2 Senussi of the Libyan Arab Force fate unknown.
Vehicles destroyed:
- 10 x 30cwt Chevrolets
- 4 x Willys Jeeps[2]		 Killed: 4
Wounded:15
Captured: 1[2]
Aircraft destroyed: 16
Aircraft damaged: 7[a]
Also Destroyed/damaged: Motorised Transport, military equipment, buildings (described in text).

Operation Caravan was a subsidiary of Operation Agreement under which four simultaneous raids were carried out against important Axis lines of communication positions in September 1942.

The operations were against Tobruk (Agreement), Benghazi (Bigamy), Jalo oasis (Nicety) and Barce (Caravan).[b] Caravan was the only successful operation of the group.

As well as aiding in some of the operations, the Long Range Desert Group was to carry out the attack on the Italians at Barce, particularly the airfield there. To reach Barce, the force travelled 1,155 miles (1,859 km). One part of the force attacked the airfield claiming 35 aircraft destroyed, the other attacked the barracks.

  1. ^ O'Carroll 2005,[clarification needed] p.54.
  2. ^ a b O'Carroll 2005, pp.116–117.
  3. ^ O'Carroll 2005, p.62.
  4. ^ O'Carroll 2005, pp.25–26


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