El Alamein

[F.N.]

Could you people please give me some information about the battle of El Alamein?
Any info is welcome

Thanks

[Kaan Caglar]

Hello F.N.
Some time ago David Thompson posted these very useful links.(Thanks David)
I hope they help!

http://plinks.pt-quorum.com/dak/dak/

http://www.comandosupremo.com/1942.php

http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Quart ... amein.html

http://www.ehabweb.net/alamein.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/ ... ein1.shtml

http://www.regiments.org/milhist/wars/ww2/africa-n.htm

http://www.second-world-war.com/desert_campaign.htm
Best Regards
Kaan

[DrG]

Axis OOB: http://bunker.altervista.org/asse.html
Allies OOB: http://bunker.altervista.org/alleati.html

[John W]

That's a good map. Thanks for posting it

[DrG]

http://www.comandosupremo.com/1942.php
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/ ... ein1.shtml

Thank you for the links. These 2 are old, the updated links are:
http://www.comandosupremo.com/1942.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/ ... mein.shtml.

That's a good map. Thanks for posting it

Here there are two good maps:
http://www.topedge.com/panels/ww2/na/alamein.jpg
http://www.historyonmaps.com/BWSamples/ElAlamein.htm.

PS I don't know other good links in English. The only ones I can suggest are in Italian (and are really very good):
http://bunker.altervista.org/elalamein.html
http://www.esercito.difesa.it/root/storia/elalamein.asp

[Kaan Caglar]

http://www.comandosupremo.com/1942.php
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/ ... ein1.shtml

Thank you for the links. These 2 are old, the updated links are:
http://www.comandosupremo.com/1942.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/ ... mein.shtml.

Thanks for the correction
Cheers
Kaan

[Linlu]

hi all,

I have a question, the Qattara Depression to the south of the El Alamein battleground... what was the terrain like there?

[Englander]

hi all,

I have a question, the Qattara Depression to the south of the El Alamein battleground... what was the terrain like there?

The British and the Germans, equally used this large (7,000 square miles) of salt lake and marsh land to their advantage. It was a natural defensive barrier....I guess you could safety say it was like quicksand. So it was generally impassable to military vehicles, especially tanks!

[Linlu]

Thanks Englander

btw, does anyone have a detailed OoB of the Axis and Allied forces at El Alamein? The link provided by DrG is pretty good, but its a general OoB...

thanks 8)

[DrG]

btw, does anyone have a detailed OoB of the Axis and Allied forces at El Alamein? The link provided by DrG is pretty good, but its a general OoB...

You are lucky : recently the outstandinge site by Dr. Leo Niehorster http://www.orbat.com/site/ww2/drleo/index.htm has returned on-line. Here you may read the best and most detailed OOB for El-Alamein that I know: http://www.orbat.com/site/ww2/drleo/500 ... frica.html.

[Linlu]

WOW, that website is detailed!
Thanks a lot DrG!

[G. Trifkovic]

El Alamein's 63rd anniversary-BBC "live":

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/date ... 564385.stm

Cheers,

Gauis