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Reasons for fighting here:
- the Suez canal
- Oil in the middle east
- Bernard Montgomery and his Desert Rats fought:
- Rommel and the Afrika Korps
- They win a turning point battle at Al Elamein in 1942 NUTS
- prevent the Germans From the Suez and Oil and shows the Germans best troops could be beaten
- Americans join in 1942 under Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Summary
During the Second World War, the North African Campaign took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 13 May 1943. It included campaigns fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts and in Morocco and Algeria (Operation Torch) and Tunisia (Tunisia Campaign).
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"Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole." -Bernard Law Montgomery
Subjunctive Question
What if the use of tanks in the Battle of North Africa was not so prominent? How would that have changed its outcome?