SECOND BATTLE OF EL ALAMEIN: ROMMEL FAILS TO DELIVER VICTORY
El Alamein, Northwestern Egypt • October 23, 1942 In 1942 El Alamein was a mean little railway station roughly 275 miles/440 km east of the Libyan-Egyptian border. The First Battle of El Alamein was fought there between July 1 and 27, 1942, by a mixed German-Italian army under newly minted Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in command of Panzer Army…