The 80th Anniversary of the historic final Battle of El Alamein is the ideal time to study the events leading up to the famous victory of General Bernard Montgomery over Field Marshal Rommel and the Panzerarmee Africa in the autumn of 1942.
Four months earlier, after the fall of Tobruk, Rommel's forces were on the rise. Prime Minister Winston Churchill removed General Auchinleck from command of the 8th Army and appointed Bernard Montgomery in his place. Following the successful defense of Alamein Halfaya in August and September that halted Rommel's relentless advance, Montgomery implemented plans for the planned offensive campaign at El Alamein, which took place between October 23 and November 4, 1942.
The stakes could not have been higher. If Rommel had broken through the Allied defenses in the summer of 1942 or if Montgomery's forces had failed to defeat the German and Italian armies at El Alamein, Egypt and the Suez Canal would have fallen into Nazi hands.
Instead, the victory at El Alamein proved to be a decisive moment in the War against Hitler and led to victory in North Africa.
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