First Battle of El Alamein Photographs


A Humber Mk II armoured car of the UK 12th Royal Lancers on patrol south of El Alamein, Egypt, Jul 1942	German 8.8 cm FlaK gun being towed during the First Battle of El Alamein, Egypt, Jul 1942

British troops digging defensive trenches near El Alamein, Egypt, 4 Jul 1942	New Zealand Brigadier Howard Kippenberger and Captain Allan McPhail inspecting a destroyed Cannone da 90/53 anti-aircraft gun formerly of the Italian Ariete Division, near El Alamein, Egypt, 4 Jul 1942 or shortly after

Overhead view of a South African Air Force raid on the German airfield at Martuba, Libya, 6 Jul 1942. Note circular dust patterns of bomb bursts and lines of dust kicked up by scrambling aircraft.	25-pounder gun of Australian 2/8th Field Regiment near El Alamein, Egypt, 12 Jul 1942

British troops at a defensive position near El Alamein, Egypt, 17 Jul 1942	Damaged SdKfz 6/3 Diana self-propelled gun of German 605th Tank Destroyer Division, near El Alamein, Egypt, circa early Aug 1942

Winston Churchill, Leslie Morshead, Claude Auchinleck, and W. H. C. Ramsden (background) at 9th Australian Division headquarters, El Alamein, Egypt, 5 Aug 1942