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 War. Panzerarmee Afrika, attempted an envelopment of the British Eighth Army. In Unternehmen Brandung, the last big Axis offensive of the Western Desert Campaign, Rommel intended to defeat the Eighth Army before Allied reinforcements arrived.
Italian XX Motorised Corps (XX Corpo d'Armata, Generale Giuseppe de Stefanis)
A British Hurricane fighter brought down by Italian anti-aircraft fire during the battle.
RAF Baltimore day bomber
A British Valentine tank in North Africa.
As the number of German troops committed to the North African Campaign of World War II grew from the initial commitment of a small corps, the Germans developed a more elaborate command structure and placed the enlarged Afrika Korps, with Italian units under this new Italian and German command and a succession of commands were created to manage Axis forces in Africa:Panzer Group Africa, August 1941 – January 1942; German-Italian force
Panzer Army Africa, January–October 1942
German-Italian Panzer Army, October 1942 – February 1943
Army Group Africa, February–May 1943
Image: Bundesarchiv Bild 146 1977 018 13A, Erwin Rommel(brighter)
Image: Bundesarchiv Bild 146 1977 018 13A, Erwin Rommel(brighter)
Image: Bundesarchiv Bild 146 1980 009 34, Georg Stumme
Image: Bundesarchiv Bild 146 1972 083 25, Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma
