 Kọ itẹsiwaju fun paragirafi yii - Lẹhin ti awọn ọmọ ogun Italia ni Ariwa Afirika ti ni okun sii pẹlu awọn ọmọ ogun Afirika labẹ Erwin Rommel lakoko Iṣẹ-ṣiṣe Sonnenblume : , Lieutet General Philip Neame, General Officer Commanding GOC Cyrenaica, ni a mu lakoko ilosiwaju Rommel ati pe Western Desert Force HQ ni a tun mu ṣiṣẹ ni Oṣu Kẹrin Ọjọ 14, labẹ Major-General Noel Beresford-Peirse, lati gba aṣẹ ti awọn ọmọ-ogun Commonwealth ti Ilu Gẹẹsi ni aginju iwọ-oorun ati da ilọsiwaju Axis duro ni aala Egypt-Libya. 