El Alamein (Arabic: العلمين, romanized: al-ʿAlamayn, lit. 'the two flags', IPA: [elʕælæˈmeːn] ) is a town in the northern Matrouh Governorate of Egypt...
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Battle of El Alamein (23 October – 11 November 1942) was a battle of the Second World War that took place near the Egyptian railway halt of El Alamein. The...
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The First Battle of El Alamein (1–27 July 1942) was a battle of the Western Desert campaign of the Second World War, fought in Egypt between Axis (German...
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El Alamein. First Battle of El Alamein: 1–27 July 1942 Second Battle of El Alamein: 23 October – 4 November 1942 In addition, the Battle of Alam el Halfa...
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The El Alamein Memorial Fountain is a heritage-listed fountain and war memorial located at Macleay Street in the inner Sydney locale of Kings Cross in...
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El Alamein International Airport (IATA: DBB, ICAO: HEAL) (Arabic: مطار العلمين الدولي Maṭār El ʿAlamein El Dawli) is an international airport located...
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The Battle of Alam el Halfa took place between 30 August and 5 September 1942 south of El Alamein during the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World...
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Erwin Rommel (section El Alamein)
the southern flank of the El Alamein lines. Expecting an attack sooner rather than later, Montgomery fortified the Alam el Halfa ridge with the 44th Division...
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New Alamein (Arabic: العلمين الجديدة), is a new city in northwest Egypt inaugurated by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on 1 March 2018. New Alamein...
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Alamein or El Alamein may refer to: El Alamein, a town in Egypt First Battle of El Alamein, during World War II Second Battle of El Alamein, during World...
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of El Alamein Second Battle of El Alamein El Alamein (1953 film), an American war film El Alamein: The Line of Fire, a 2002 Italian war-drama film El Alamein:...
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Western Desert campaign (redirect from Second Battle of El Agheila)
retreated to El Alamein, where the Eighth Army fought two defensive battles, then defeated the Axis forces in the Second Battle of El Alamein in October...
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Screen International Star of Tomorrow. El-Masry debuted in the Egyptian comedy Ramadan Mabrouk Abu El Alamein Hamouda (2008), for which he was awarded...
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Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein KG, GCB, DSO, PC, DL (/məntˈɡʌməri ... ˈæləmeɪn/; 17 November 1887 – 24 March...
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9th Division (Australia) (section El Alamein)
campaign, at the Siege of Tobruk and both the First and Second Battles of El Alamein, the 9th Division returned to Australia. In 1943–1944, it served in the...
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Leslie Morshead (section El Alamein)
British troops at the Siege of Tobruk (1941) and at the Second Battle of El Alamein, achieving decisive victories over Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps. His soldiers...
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The Battle of El Alamein is a 1969 war film directed in 1969 by Giorgio Ferroni. It was an international co-production between Italy and France. The film...
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Georg Stumme (section Battle of El Alamein and death)
briefly commanded the Axis forces at the beginning of the Second Battle of El Alamein, and died during the Defence of Outpost Snipe. He had taken part in the...
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XXX Corps (United Kingdom) (section El Alamein)
Campaign and many of its units were in action at the Second Battle of El Alamein in late 1942. It then took part in the Tunisia Campaign and formed the...
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Dudley Clarke (section 1942: El Alamein)
over deception planning, pushing 'A' Force aside. Clarke was sent to El Alamein, where Allied forces were on the retreat, to work on deception plans....
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offensive, the Battle of Alam el Halfa. This was followed, in November, by the Eighth Army's offensive, the Second Battle of El Alamein that resulted in the Axis...
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Dispositions for the Second Battle of El Alamein The Second Battle of El Alamein (23 October – 11 November 1942) was a battle of the Second World War that...
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memorial at El Alamein is an Italian war cemetery, museum, and memorial to the Italian soldiers who fought at the two Battles of El Alamein in World War...
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Egypt followed, with advances and retreats until the Second Battle of El Alamein in October 1942 when the Eighth Army (Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery)...
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Western Desert Campaign and was destroyed during the Second Battle of El Alamein in early November 1942. On 20 March 1938 the first Italian Parachuting...
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El Alamein - The Line of Fire (Italian: El Alamein - La linea del fuoco, also known as El Alamein: Bond of Honour) is a 2002 Italian war-drama film written...
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commanded by Brigadier J.C.Currie and fought at the Second Battle of El Alamein. Its units were: 3rd Hussars Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry Warwickshire Yeomanry...
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El Alamein: Battles in North Africa, 1942 is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1973 that simulates the final four months...
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2nd New Zealand Division (section El Alamein)
role in the defeat of German and Italian forces in the Second Battle of El Alamein and the British Eighth Army's advance to Tunisia. In late 1943, the division...
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Marina, Egypt (redirect from Marina El Alamein)
Marina, also Marina El Alamein (Arabic: مارينا العلمين Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [mæˈɾiːnæ l.ʕælæˈmeːn]), ancient Leukaspis or Antiphrae, is an upscale...
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