With its conclusion nearly coinciding with Operation Torch in November 1942, the Second Battle of El Alamein put an end to Edwin Rommel, AKA “the Desert Fox,” and his offensive in the Western Desert Campaign.
With its conclusion nearly coinciding with Operation Torch in November 1942, the Second Battle of El Alamein put an end to Edwin Rommel, AKA “the Desert Fox,” and his offensive in the Western Desert Campaign. The hard-fought British victory stopped Germany’s advance into Egypt, and even inspired Prime Minister Winston Churchill to say “before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.”