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The Eighth Army was a field army of the British Army during the Second World War, created to better control the growing Allied forces based in Egypt and to direct their efforts to lift the siege of Tobruk via Operation Crusader.. Initially formed as the Western Army on 10 September 1941, in Egypt, Renamed the Army of the Nile, Finally the Eighth Army on 26 September. Directed Allied forces ...