Battle of Alam el Halfa
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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 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.
The 21st Panzer Division was a German armoured division best known for its role in the battles of the North African Campaign from 1941 to 1943 during World War II when it was one of the two armoured divisions making up the Deutsches Afrikakorps (DAK).
Seven captured German self-propelled 15 cm howitzers from the division, near El Alamein, Egypt
Rommel inspecting division in May, 1944.