Talk:Kufra

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Actually the battle aspect of this article needs to be broken out. Wendell 04:16, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Map

Seems like Al Jawf on this PD map[1] shows the basic location of the Kufra oasis. WP version: Image:Ly-map.png. 24.17.48.241 21:51, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The sources

Great to have sources, can anyone confirm that they are not "cut and paste"? Rich Farmbrough. 22:36, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Errors

This is NachtLink and a research associate and myself would like to correct several mistakes in this article... Roberto (robc) makes these specific notes: There are several factual errors in the text and frequent misspellings of Italian words and names...

- It's SAHARIANA - It's COMPAGNIA SAHARIANA "CUFRA" or DI CUFRA - Actually it's COMPAGNIA AUTO-AVIO-SAHARIANA "CUFRA", frequently shortened to AUTOSAHARIANA. - Plural is SAHARIANE - There were NO armoured cars, the first arrived in North Africa in 1942 (we know why there is this old tale of armoured cars at Kufra, but this is another story) - Col. Leo was the CO of the Air Force sector; the CO of the fort garrison was Capt. Colonna. - this is no "forerunner" of the famous "mid-war sahariane"... what does this mean? the "Cufra" kept on as a Compagnia Sahariana from at least 1933 to its destruction by enemy forces a couple weeks before the end of everything in Tunisia in 1943.

Note Link to Further discussion: This might help to ratify my position as to the errors from the initial author's primary reference "Histoire de Guerre" Issue 30; November 2002 is actually fatally flawed in equipment, men and command determinant issues... and from the original author a closer scrutiny to the facts would bring to light the errors being proven of which I am bringing forth some corrections as this may finally shed light on the true and actual facts involved! Thanks my friends for allowing this addendum! Via NachtLink Hyperlink to discussion of subject: http://www.afrika-korps.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3117&highlight=kufra

Note: This material was posted on the main page by User:NachtLink and moved to the discussion page by User:Verne Equinox.

The article contains factual errors and misrepresentation that I won't bother to fix, most notably about a French miltary presence in Kufra in 1931. However, here is a decent source in Italian. L'omo del batocio 10:23, 13 August 2007 (UTC)