This battle began with Operation Lightfoot, so named because of the initial infantry assault designed not to set off the 500,000 mines placed by the enemy and allow for minesweepers to remove them,  allowing the tanks that were the major player in this conflict to advance.
This battle began with Operation Lightfoot, so named because of the initial infantry assault designed not to set off the 500,000 mines placed by the enemy and allow for minesweepers to remove them,  allowing the tanks that were the major player in this conflict to advance. This battle ended with Operation Supercharge, which featured heavy attrition termed "the Hammering of the Panzers." The Allies sank the tanker Proserpina during this battle, leaving the enemy tanks with little fuel. Rommel hoped that a victory at Stalingrad would force the British to pull back their tanks into Persia, allowing for a victory at this conflict that would allow the Germans to push across the Suez and the Caucasus into the oil-rich Middle East. But as at Stalingrad the Axis lost this battle, which was a turning point in the war: Churchill remarked that before this battle, the Allies never had any victories; after this battle, they never had any defeats. FTP, name this victory for the Allies under Montgomery, a 1942 battle in the Egyptian desert.
This battle began with Operation Lightfoot, so named because of the initial infantry assault designed not to set off the 500,000 mines placed by the enemy and allow for minesweepers to remove them,  allowing the tanks that were the major player in this conflict to advance.
Second Battle of El Alamein