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The Alexandra Shackleton alongside the pontoon [Picture: Leading Airman (Photographer) Chris Mumby, Crown Copyright/MOD 2012]
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Second Battle of El Alamein

23rd October 1942

At El Alamein in northern Egypt, the British Eighth Army under Field Marshal Montgomery begin a critical offensive to expel the Axis armies from Egypt, never to return.

In July 1942, German and Italian forces seemed to be at the point of sweeping away the remainder of British resistance in the Middle East and triumphantly overrunning Egypt. If this had happened, the disaster for the Allies would have been irretrievable. Instead, Rommel's victorious army was checked on the… Read more at Pen & Sword...

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