Panzer IV Ausf.D and Panzer II tanks in Tripoli, Libya, March 1941. Note the big storage box at the back of the turret. Rommel arrived in North Africa in February 1941 with fairly mundane orders to act as a Sperrband, a “blocker” to bolster the Italians after their mauling at Beda Fomm. The force he led was appropriately tiny: the reconnaissance battalion and an antitank detachment of the 5. leichte-Division (soon renamed the 21. Panzer-Division). The rest of the division was still en route to Africa, and a second division, the 15. Panzer-Division, would not arrive completely until the end of May 1941.
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"Deutsche Afrikakorps (1941-1943)" by Ricardo Recio Cardona
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/drive-nowhere-myth-afrika-korps-1941-43
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