El Alamein in Egypt
Friday, 25 August 2023 - 11:00 am (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: North Africa / Nordafrika Category/Kategorie: General , Union for the Mediterranean
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El Alamein (lit.
the two flags ) is a town in the northern
Matrouh Governorate of Egypt. Located on the
Arab’s Gulf ,
Mediterranean Sea , it lies 106 kilometres (66 mi) west of
Alexandria and 300 kilometres (186 mi) northwest of
Cairo . As of 2007, it had a population of 7,397 inhabitants.
The town is located on the site of the ancient city Antiphrai (Greek : Ἀντίφραι).
El Alamein Military Museum Peace Monument © حمد-عبد-الغني
El Alamein has a war museum with artifacts from North African battles. Two important
World War II battles were fought in the area:
At the First Battle of El Alamein (1–27 July 1942), the advance of Axis troops on Alexandria was blunted by the Allies , stopping the German panzers that were trying to outflank the Allies’ position.
At the Second Battle of El Alamein (23 October – 4 November 1942), Allied forces broke the Axis line and forced them all the way back to Tunisia . Winston Churchill , the British Prime Minister at the time, said of this victory: “Now this is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” After the war, he wrote: “Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein, we never had a defeat.”
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