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| rdfs:label | - First Battle of El Alamein
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| rdfs:comment | - The First Battle of El Alamein took place near the El Alamein train station almost by the sea, between 1 and 27 July 1942. The British Commonwealth forces emerged victorious in the battle, having stopped Rommel's Italo-German forces in Egypt. The battle marked the end of several Axis victories obtained at El Gazala, Tobruk, Mersa Matruh, Fuka and elsewhere, and was the first in a series of Allied victories which would result in the liberation of French Tunisia from Axis forces and the invasion of Italy.
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| Strength | - 1000
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- ~500 planes
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| Partof | - the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War
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| Commander | - Claude Auchinleck
- Erwin Rommel
- Dorman Smith
- Enea Navarini
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| Casualties | - 13250
- German: 10,000 casualties
- Italian: unknownref|Italian casualties are not known, but the Allies took 7,000 German and Italian prisoners.|group=nb
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| Result | - Strategic Allied victory
- Tactical stalemate
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| Conflict | - First Battle of El Alamein
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| abstract | - The First Battle of El Alamein took place near the El Alamein train station almost by the sea, between 1 and 27 July 1942. The British Commonwealth forces emerged victorious in the battle, having stopped Rommel's Italo-German forces in Egypt. The battle marked the end of several Axis victories obtained at El Gazala, Tobruk, Mersa Matruh, Fuka and elsewhere, and was the first in a series of Allied victories which would result in the liberation of French Tunisia from Axis forces and the invasion of Italy. General Erwin Rommel's Panzerarmee Afrika had been successfully fighting their way ever closer to the Suez Canal and the rich oil fields of Egypt. Italian "battleship convoys" under Admiral Angelo Iachino, and good solid intelligence from the Italian Military Information Service (Servizio Informazione Militare or SIM) obtained from the US Embassy in Rome, had greatly assisted in the Axis victories of Gazala, Tobruk, Mersa Matruh and Fuka. Unfortunately for Rommel, the deciphered daily reports to Washington coming from Colonel Bonner Fellers (US military attache in Cairo), stopped almost a week after the fall of Tobruk. To make matters worse, his divisions were now running low on fuel. The scenario was soon set for a major Allied counteroffensive, that aimed to completely destroy the forward Italian divisions and the panzer and German motorized infantry divisions sent forward to assist.
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