#El Alamein

[theworldatwar]

A British truck, part of a convoy comes under attack - El Alamein, Oct 1942

[renulkaa]

~ El Alamein, Egypt 🌊🌴🇪🇬

[thedesertfox]

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel (Colonel Bayerlein behind) talks to Sonderführer Günther Halm. 'Sonderführer' was a unique rank given to men enlisted into the army with specialist skills, hence his unique uniform.

Günther Halm was a non-commissioned officer in the Afrika Korps and the first enlisted man to receive the Knight's Cross by Rommel personally, during the 1st Battle of El Alamein in July 1942.

Nineteen-year-old Halm was manning one of two antitank guns that had been positioned so that they would be the last defense before the enemy armour could break through. The gun crew was unable to dig the gun into the rocky ground, so two gunners had to sit on the gun’s trails to absorb its recoil. Toward them roared a column of British tanks. In two minutes Halm blasted four heavy tanks. The others halted, searched for the barely concealed guns, and opened fire on them. A shell screamed between Halm’s legs. A second shell tore off his loader’s legs; another gunner took that man’s place.

Five more British tanks were shot to flames before Halm’s gun was disabled by shellfire. By that time the Twenty-first Panzer had arrived and finished off the enemy tanks. One week later Rommel personally decorated Halm with the Knight's Cross.

[carbone14]

Chars M3 Grant, M3 Lee et M3 Stuart – 1ère bataille d'El Alamein – El Alamein – Egypte – 9 juillet 1942

Photographe : Sergent Windows - No. 1 Army Film and Photo Section, Army Film and Photographic Unit

©Imperial War Museums - E 14120

[namonaki-pharaoh]

Tutankhamun knows how to keep you entertained at a party.

📍El Alamein, North Coast, Egypt

[italianiinguerra]

Medaglie d'Oro della 2ª Guerra Mondiale - Tenente LUIGI ARBIB PASCUCCI -Bir el Abd (Africa settentrionale), 5 novembre 1942

Nome e CognomeLuigi Arbib PascucciLuogo e data di nascitaRoma, 30 ottobre 1909Forza ArmataRegio EsercitoArmaFanteriaCorpo o specialitàCarristiReparto10ª Compagnia del XIII battaglione carri medi M13/40Reggimento132º Rgt. carriGrande Unità132ª Divisione “Ariete”GradoTenente comandante della 10ª Compagnia Anni di servizio1934 – 1937 e 1941 – 1942Guerre e campagnaGuerra d’AbissiniaGrandi operazioni…

[heavensdoorways]

“White Memorial”

The Italian war memorial at El Alamein-Egypt, was built to be a war cemetery, museum, and memorial to the Italian soldiers who fought at the two Battles of El Alamein in World War II.

Marwa Elchazly Photography

[all-action-all-picture]

Warlord No. 267, dated 3 November 1979. Cover by Jeff Bevan. DC Thomson.

[married-to-a-redhead]

A little light entertainment during my lunch break. Everyone watches stuff like this for fun, right?

“Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein, we never had a defeat." - Winston Churchill

[world-v-you-blog]

The Uses of History, 38 – Mussolini and Fascism, 10

The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value. Thus understood, Fascism is totalitarian, and the Fascist State – a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values – interprets, develops, and potentiates the whole life of a people. Benito Mussolini, source:…

[rmsqueenmaryonthisday]

Narrow Escape

From the Toronto Daily Star on June 21, 1945: Queen Mary Outran 25 U-Boats In 12,000-Mile Race to Egypt New York, June 21 – The big British liner Queen Mary, in New York today after bringing home 14,526 army and navy personnel from Europe, probably is the No. 1 troop transport of the war. For the Queen Mary, her latest arrival here with the largest troop passenger list was just another…

[theworldatwar]

British troops take cover behind a knocked out German tank during their victory at Second Alamein - Nov 1942

[indianajonesania]

I have a very random poll for all two people who are likely to see this. Which English battle is more famous; Bosworth or El Alamein. (I'm trying to prove a point)

[thedesertfox]

"Catch them!"

This photo was taken sometime shortly after Rommel's epic capture of the port of Tobruk, late June 1942. Colonel Fritz Bayerlein (right) and German & Italian staff officers are also present.

The newly-promoted Field Marshal did not celebrate for long. He knew that the British were retreating, but if he didn't capture their veteran divisions and heavy equipment, they would slip away into British-controlled Egypt. This set the stage for the First Battle of El Alamein.

[carbone14]

Un officier britannique de la 8e Armée examine un panneau d'alerte australien sur la route d'El Alamein – Campagne d'Afrique du Nord – Septembre 1942

[poem-today]

A poem by Kenneth Slessor

Beach Burial

Softly and humbly to the Gulf of Arabs The convoys of dead sailors come; At night they sway and wander in the waters far under, But morning rolls them in the foam. Between the sob and clubbing of the gunfire Someone, it seems, has time for this, To pluck them from the shallows and bury them in burrows And tread the sand upon their nakedness; And each cross, the driven stake of tidewood, Bears the last signature of men, Written with such perplexity, with such bewildered pity, The words choke as they begin - 'Unknown seaman' - the ghostly pencil Wavers and fades, the purple drips, The breath of wet season has washed their inscriptions As blue as drowned men's lips, Dead seamen, gone in search of the same landfall, Whether as enemies they fought, Or fought with us, or neither; the sand joins them together, Enlisted on the other front.

El Alamein, 1942

Kenneth Slessor (1901–1971)