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 Meanwhile, the Australian Tank Corps was superseded following the formation of the Australian Armoured Corps in July 1941.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 the Ottomans and the defenders of the citadel moved to Italy and Venetian Dalmatia, while many Albanians from the region retreated into the mountains. Venetians retained Durrës – that they called "Durazzo" – and surrounding areas after a huge siege by the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II in 1466, but it fell to Ottoman forces in 1508. Also in this case, the Christian population moved away and many venetian families -who were living in Durazzo- moved to Venetian Dalmatia. Italians in Albania Italians in Albania is related to the Italian migration into what is today Albania that has been going on,