Second Battle of El Alamein

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The Second Battle of El Alamein took place from 23 October to 5 November 1942, outside the El Alamein train station near the sea and the large Quattara Depression to the south. General Bernard Montgomery commanded the British 8th Army and General Erwin Rommel commanded the Panzerarmee Afrika' during this battle.

General Rommel's Italo-German forces had been pushing ever closer to the Suez Canal and the oil-rich fields of Egypt, thanks in large part to the Italian "battleship convoys" (under Admiral Angelo Iachino) that delivered much needed fuel and tanks, and intercepted Allied signals from the Italian Military Information Service (Servizio Informazione Militare or SIM), that helped Rommel obtain the Axis victories at Gazala, Tobruk, Mersa Matruh and Fuka.

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