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Mensaje: <blockquote data-quote="emilioteles" data-source="post: 1736952" data-attributes="member: 3144"><img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/10955186_657915514338244_3385590957940546740_n.jpg?oh=1022fbe12cfa8f951a1e83b80e36dfca&oe=558639AB&__gda__=1434625985_b6157131be14809d9da282e8bbbfc60d" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> 'First Battle of El Alamein'An Australian soldier, possibly from 26 Brigade, 9th Division (Australia) with a captured German MG.34 in a machine gun post near the strategic high ground around Tel el Eisa, north-west of Alamein, Egypt. 25th of July 1942.The 26 Brigade Group showed great skill and determination in holding this important salient, particularly over those first seven days, 10-16 July. While the DAF and the British, South African and Australian artillery was of invaluable support, the tenacity of the men in the front lines determined that the position would not fall. Rommel threw all he possibly could at them for a week; artillery, dive-bombers, tanks and infantry.The Australians lost some ground and even had the enemy penetrate the heart of the salient, but they always retook what they lost, and dug in again with renewed determination. Only first class troops could stand that sort of ordeal.The salient remained a dangerous thorn in Rommel's side. Having given up hope of success in the north at Tel el Eisa, he launched his final bid to break the Alamein line, further south at Alam Halfa Ridge at the end of August. His new adversary Lt General Montgomery who had replaced Auchinleck, repulsed this attack convincingly. The Australians continued to hold the coastal sector around Tel el Eisa. It would be from this key position that they launched their attack on 23 October. On this day the Second Battle of El Alamein opened, in which ultimately the Eighth Army delivered a crushing defeat to Rommel's Afrika Korps.The pendulum had now swung irreversibly in favour of the Allies.(Source - © IWM E 14847)(Lt. Knight - No 1 Army Film & Photographic Unit)</blockquote>

Verificación: Guerra desarrollada entre Argentina y el Reino Unido en 1982