New York Sunday News Original 1942 Vintage Newspaper-Renew Libyan Drive- Sun. December 13, 1942. Includes Wear and Tear. Not For Reading.11x17 inches The Battle of Gazala (near the modern town of Ayn al Ghaz_lah ___ _______) was fought during the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War, west of the port of Tobruk in Libya, from 26 May to 21 June 1942. Axis troops of the Panzerarmee Afrika (Generaloberst Erwin Rommel) consisting of German and Italian units fought the British Eighth Army (General Sir Claude Auchinleck, also Commander-in-Chief Middle East) composed mainly of British Commonwealth, Indian and Free French troops.