Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei waahanga - Ko nga ope Itari (me o raatau hoa Libyan taketake - e rua nga waahanga o te whakamutunga) i uru ki Ihipa i te timatanga o Hepetema 1940 engari i mutu ta raatau haere i muri i te wiki ka keri i Sidi Barrani. I te tīmatanga o Hakihea, i whakarewahia e ngā ope o te Emepaea o Ingarangi - he wehenga taiapa me ngā wehenga hiko e rua - tētahi whakaeke whakahē, ko te ingoa waehere Operation Compass. I whakaekehia e Itari a Albania i mua
ka noho ki tētahi wāhanga o te tonga o Wīwī, ā, kua whakaekea e ia he whakaekenga hōia ki tētahi mana o Ingarangi.