Operation Agreement

Allied amphibious operation against Tobruk in World War II

Operation Agreement

Part of the Western Desert Campaign and the Battle of the Mediterranean of the Second World War

The Italian torpedo boats Castore and Montanari (top right) firing upon British MTBs and MLs at Tobruk harbour, 14 September 1942
| Date| 13–14 September 1942

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Location|

Tobruk, Italian Libya

32°05′42″N 23°55′55″E﻿ / ﻿32.095°N 23.932°E﻿ / 32.095; 23.932
Result|  German–Italian victory
Belligerents

United Kingdom

* Southern Rhodesia

New Zealand|

* Italy
* Germany

Commanders and leaders
John Haselden †|  Giuseppe Lombardi[1]
Strength

* ~650–700 marines and soldiers
* 1 cruiser
* 6 destroyers
* 16 MTBs
* 3 motor launches
* 30 landing craft
* 1 submarine

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* 250–300 Italians
* 30 Germans
* 78 guns (48 Italian and 30 German)
* 3 torpedo boats
* 3 R boats
* 8 MFPs (4 Italian and 4 German)

[2]
Casualties and losses

* 800 killed and 576 captured
* 1 cruiser
* 2 destroyers
* 4 MTBs
* 2 MLs
* Several landing craft

* 15 Italians and 1 German killed
* 43 Italians and 7 Germans wounded[3]
* 30 aircraft

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Operation Agreement was a ground and amphibious operation carried out by British, Rhodesian and New Zealand forces on Axis-held Tobruk from 13 to 14 September 1942, during the Second World War. A Special Interrogation Group party, fluent in German, took part in missions behind enemy lines. Diversionary actions extended to Benghazi (Operation Bigamy), Jalo oasis (Operation Nicety) and Barce (Operation Caravan).[3][a] The Tobruk raid was an Allied disaster; the British lost several hundred men killed and captured, one cruiser, two destroyers, six motor torpedo boats and dozens of small amphibious craft.

## Background

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The objective of Operation Agreement was to undermine the Axis war effort in North Africa by destroying airfields, harbour facilities, supply ships, vehicles and large oil stores.[5] The Allies also intended to capture Jalo oasis, which was to be used as a rendezvous for the retreating ground forces involved in the other operations.[6]

## Course

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### Prelude

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G1 and T1 patrols of the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) with 50 men, 12 light trucks and five jeeps assaulted Barce airfield and the main barracks, destroying 16 aircraft and damaging seven more.[7][8] In the attack on the barracks, the LRDG lost four men and two vehicles. Near Zaptié the LRDG force was intercepted by an Italian motorised company with all but two lorries damaged or destroyed. The lorries were loaded with the most seriously injured, while the others went on foot for 99 mi (160 km). The Italians took seven New Zealanders and three Rhodesians prisoner, all injured. After a year, four of the New Zealanders were able to escape.[3] Lieutenant Colonel David Stirling and a party of the Special Air Service, supported by S1 and S2 patrols of the LRDG, were to attempt a big raid on Benghazi but after running late, their presence was discovered after a clash at a roadblock as dawn broke. With the element of surprise lost and the protection of darkness receding, Stirling ordered a withdrawal.[3] The attack on Jalo Oasis was carried out by the Sudan Defence Force and S1 and S2 patrols of the LRDG. The first attack on the night of 15/16 September, was easily repelled by the defenders, who were on the alert and had been reinforced. The attackers withdrew on 19 September as an Italian relief column approached the oasis.[8]

### Main attack

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Operation Agreement involved an amphibious force of about 400 Royal Marines, 180 infantry from the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Captain Norman MacFie), 14 Platoon, Z Company, I Battalion, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (Lieutenant Ernest Raymond), and army engineers and Force B (Lt. Col. John Edward Haselden), about 150 SAS approaching from the desert. The amphibious force was split into Force A, supported by destroyers and intended to land the marines on the peninsula north of Tobruk, while Force C, composed of coastal units, was directed towards an inlet east of Tobruk harbour. Force B captured an Italian 152 mm coastal battery but this was quickly retaken by Italian marines from the San Marco Battalion; Haselden was killed in action. Most of the shore batteries and positions remained in Axis hands.[9]

#### Force A

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Force E, a group of commandos from the submarine HMS Taku failed to set up beacons on the shore to guide the main British force, due to the bad sea conditions. The garrison had been reinforced and the destroyers HMS Sikh and Zulu bringing in the seaborne troops landed them on the wrong beach, far to the west of the intended landing place.[10] The British destroyer Sikh, which led the landing attempt, was hit by Italian 152 mm (6-inch) shore batteries and German 88 mm anti-tank guns, while taking on troops. Zulu had gone to the rescue but was unable to pull Sikh clear and it eventually sank; 122 members of the crew were reported killed and the survivors, most of them rescued from the water by the retreating amphibious boats, were eventually taken prisoner. On the afternoon of 14 September, while returning to Alexandria, HMS Coventry was badly damaged by German Junkers Ju 87 "Stuka" dive-bombers from Crete and 63 crew were killed. Coventry was scuttled by Zulu which was hit by German Ju 87 and Junkers Ju 88 dive-bombers a little later.[11] While under tow and 100 nmi (120 mi; 190 km) from Alexandria, Zulu sank, with the loss of 39 crew.[12]

#### Force C

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LRDG/SAS in trucks halted at the rock outcrop of Gilf Kebir during Operation Agreement

Another landing by motor launches and boats, carrying a detachment of Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and a machine-gun platoon of the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, whose Vickers machine guns were to defend the perimeter, partially failed to reach the landing point. Because of extremely heavy fire from Tobruk harbour, only two launches, MTB 261 and MTB 314, made it into Marsa Umm el Sciausc, the target cove. MTB 314 became stranded in the shallow water, but MTB 261 managed to land Sergeant 'Dusty' Miller and his group of Fusiliers and sail out.[13] The motor launches ML 353, ML 352 and ML 349 and 17 MTBs were beaten back by boom defences and an Italian flotilla of torpedo boats and Motozattera (armed motor barges).[1][14]

Three MTBs launched torpedoes at the naval vessels in harbour, to no avail.[15] ML 353 was set on fire and scuttled, either hit by the Italian warships or strafed by Italian Macchi C.200 fighters, while ML 352, MTB 308, MTB 310 and MTB 312 were lost to Axis aircraft.[1][14] MTB 314, the motor torpedo boat that was damaged and run aground during the battle, was captured by the German harbour minesweeper R-10 at dawn, with 117 seamen and soldiers on board. Although they were frequently dive-bombed and strafed during their return journey, the bulk of the MTBs and the surviving ML reached Alexandria.[16]

## Aftermath

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British commandos during a training exercise 9 May 1944

Dozens of British sailors and marines were rescued from the sea and taken prisoner by the Italian torpedo boats Castore, Generale Carlo Montanari, the armed tug Vega, a flotilla of German harbour minesweepers and several German and Italian motor barges.[2] A number of makeshift motor amphibious craft, stragglers from Force A, attempting to reach Alexandria at very low speed, were also captured with their crews.[17][18] The commander of Sikh, Captain John Micklethwait, was taken prisoner when an Italian motor barge seized one of the Royal Marines' motor boats and the two lighters the vessel was towing.[19] A dinghy manned by the survivors of ML 352 following the same escape route was caught by Castore at midday.[20] Losses amounted to about 300 Royal Marines, 160 soldiers, 280 sailors, the anti-aircraft cruiser Coventry, the destroyers Sikh and Zulu, two motor launches, four MTBs and several small amphibious craft.[3] The Royal Marines suffered 81 killed and the Navy suffered the loss of another 217 men in the ship sinkings; about 576 survivors were taken prisoner.[21] Axis losses were 15 Italians and one German killed, 43 Italians and seven Germans wounded.[3]

## See also

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* List of British military equipment of World War II
* List of German military equipment of World War II
* List of Italian Army equipment in World War II
* North African campaign timeline
* Battle of the Mediterranean
* List of World War II battles
* British Commandos

## Notes

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1. ^ Daffodil, Snowdrop, Tulip and Hyacinth were fictitious code names, made up by the author of a book published in 1945, when the official names of the operations were secret and which came into general use.[4]

## Footnotes

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1. ^ a b c Bragadin 1957, p. 220.
2. ^ a b c L'operazione Daffodil nel piano Agreement (in Italian)
3. ^ a b c d e f Molinari & Anderson 2007, p. 71.
4. ^ O'Carroll 2005, pp. 25–26.
5. ^ Smith 1987, pp. 22–23.
6. ^ Molinari & Anderson 2007, p. 70.
7. ^ O'Carroll 2005, p. 62.
8. ^ a b Molinari & Anderson 2007, p. 72.
9. ^ Playfair et al. 2004, pp. 20–23.
10. ^ Smith 1987, pp. 90–95.
11. ^ Smith 1987, p. 189.
12. ^ Playfair et al. 2004, p. 22.
13. ^ Smith 1987, p. 11.
14. ^ a b Sadler 2016, pp. 266–268.
15. ^ Smith 1987, p. 119.
16. ^ Rohwer & Hümmelchen 2005, p. 196.
17. ^ Smith 1987, pp. 122, 144, 213.
18. ^ Sadler 2016, pp. 231–232.
19. ^ Landsborough 2015, p. 174.
20. ^ Sadler 2016, p. 269.
21. ^ "Operation "Agreement"". Archived from the original on 21 August 2018. Retrieved 28 January 2015.

## References

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* Bragadin, Marc'Antonio (1957). The Italian Navy in World War II. Annapolis, MD: United States Naval Institute. ISBN 978-0-405-13031-1.
* Landsborough, Gordon (2015). Tobruk Commando: The Raid to Destroy Rommel's Base (2nd ed.). Frontline Books. ISBN 978-1-84832-245-5.
* Molinari, Andrea; Anderson, Duncan (2007). Desert Raiders: Axis and Allied Special Forces 1940–43. Oxford: Osprey. pp. 68–73. ISBN 978-1-84603-006-2.
* O'Carroll, Brendan (2005). The Barce Raid. Wellington, NZ: Ngaio Press. ISBN 0-9582243-8-2.
* Playfair, I. S. O.; et al. (2004) [1st. pub. HMSO 1966]. Butler, J. R. M. (ed.). The Mediterranean and Middle East: The Destruction of the Axis Forces in Africa. History of the Second World War United Kingdom Military Series. Vol. IV (Naval & Military Press ed.). London: HMSO. ISBN 1-84574-068-8.
* Rohwer, Jürgen; Hümmelchen, Gerhard (2005). Chronology of the War at Sea 1939–1945: The Naval History of World War Two (3rd rev. ed.). London: Chatham. ISBN 1-86176-257-7.
* Sadler, John (2016). Operation Agreement: Jewish Commandos and the Raid on Tobruk. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-4728-1489-0.
* Smith, Peter Charles (1987). Massacre at Tobruk: The Story of Operation Agreement. London: Kimber. ISBN 0-7183-0664-3.

## Further reading

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* H. M. Ships Damaged or Sunk by Enemy Action, 3rd September, 1939 to 2nd September, 1945 (PDF). London: Admiralty: Director of Naval Construction. 1952. OCLC 38570200. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 June 2016.
* Jefferson, David (2013). Tobruk: A Raid Too Far. Robert Hale Ltd 978-0709092988.
* Lewis, Damien (2017). SAS Ghost Patrol: The Ultra-Secret Unit That Posed As Nazi Stormtroopers. Hachette UK. ISBN 978 1786483133.
* Mattesini, Francesco (2020). Disaster at Tobruk The Planning of the British "Daffodil" and "Agreement" Missions. Luca Cristini Editore. (Also published in Italian as Il disastro di Tobruk).
* Pitt, B. (2001) [1982]. The Crucible of War: Montgomery and Alamein. Vol. III (Three volume pbk. edition of the two volumes published in 1980 and 1982 ed.). London: Cassell & Co. ISBN 978-0-304-35952-3.
* Richards, D.; St G. Saunders, H. (1975) [1954]. Royal Air Force 1939–45: The Fight Avails. Vol. II (repr. ed.). London: HMSO. ISBN 978-0-11-771593-6. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
* Roskill, S. W. (1956). The Period of Balance. History of the Second World War United Kingdom Military Series: The War at Sea 1939–1945. Vol. II. London: HMSO. OCLC 174453986. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
* Sugarman, Martin. 'The SIG: behind enemy lines with Jewish Commandos' in Jewish Historical Studies Vol. 35 (1996–1998) pp. 287-307.
* Swindon, Arthur (1974) [1968]. The Raiders: Desert Strike Force. London: Pan Books. ISBN 0330240064. pp. 118-49.

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