Tanks in the Australian Army forces during the World War II. Meanwhile, the Australian Tank Corps was superseded following the formation of the Australian Armoured Corps in July 1941. In October 1941 two independent light tank squadrons had been formed for service in Malaya; however, neither was deployed due to a lack of vehicles to equip them. In North Africa in 1941, Australian troops were part of the force which captured Tobruk on 22 January as part of Operation Compass, yielding over 25,000 prisoners along with 236 field and medium guns, 23 medium tanks and more than 200 other vehicles. During the capture of the
Italians in Albania Italians in Albania Italians in Albania is related to the Italian migration into what is today Albania that has been going on, in different migrating cycles, for centuries, beginning after the Roman empire times right to the modern age. As of January 2017 there are 1,385 Italians residents in Albania Other figures show about 19,000 Italians living and working in Albania. The territory of what is now Albania was fully conquered by the Romans in the century before Augustus. Roman colonists from the Italian peninsula settled in some cities and castra, like Dyrrachium (from where started the famous Via Egnatia