Lion of the Desert
Here in the story
Base
Graziani arrives with tanks, aircraft and a plan to cut the guerrillas off from the people who feed them.
What happened here
The main city of Italian Cyrenaica was the base of General Graziani's campaign against the Senussi resistance, which interned much of the population in camps; its leader Omar Mukhtar was hanged at nearby Suluq in September 1931. In the Second World War Benghazi changed hands five times, and in May 1942 David Stirling's SAS slipped into its harbour to raid Axis shipping.
Films and series set in Benghazi
SAS: Rogue Heroes
Here in the story
City
Stirling drives into the Axis-held port in disguise with Churchill's son Randolph to plant explosives on shipping.
