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El-Alamein

 

            
            
            
             The first attack by the eighth army started today .
            
             With 1,194 men in the forward area,only 1,021 .
            
            
             pieces of artillery, and 832 field guns. The RAF has .
             over 900 hundred plains. For the first time we .
             actually have an advantage over them. We are led by .
             General Bernard Montgomery he has some pretty good .
             ideas of how to beat the German, Italian troops that .
             are led by the Field Marshall Erwin Rommel. At night .
             the XXX Corps were fighting their way on to Miteirya .
             Ridge and they were also on the southern sector. The .
             XIII Corps also made some progress, but the .
             minefields made a big delay on them. .
             October 24, 1942.
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             This morning we found the body of General Stumme .
             after dying of heart failure while his driving .
             through the 90th light to see what was going on. The .
             Australians were probably firing at him. .
             October 25, 1942.
             Last night the seventh armored division went thro.
             ugh the first mine field but halted. Rommel came .
             today and relieved Stumme's replacements. He saw .
             that the fifteenth Panzer had only thirty one tanks .
             left and little gas. He also saw that there were .
             heavy air and artillery attacks that was inflicting .
             heavy casualties on his troops. Rommel drove the .
             british back by throwing in his reserves.
             .
             October 26, 1942.
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             Last night Gatehouse's tenth armored division .
             tried to push forward. There was a lot of confusion .
             with the gapping parties. Vehicles became over .
             banked. At about 10:00 last night a German bomber .
             destroyed about twenty five vehicles that had gas and .
             ammunition aboard. This started a fire that lasted .
             the entire night. Gatehouse was going to call of the .
             attack but didn't. This morning Montgomery's first .
             attack was no that strong. Knocking out about 200 .
             British tanks. The XXX Corps has got most of its .
             objectives though. Also this morning the eighth army .
             took about 2,000 prisoners. The british intelligence .
             was over estimating the amount of casualties of the .
             Axis forces.
             October 27, 1942.


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