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This is the BBC Home and Forces program. Here's some excellent news which has come during the

past hour. The Axis forces in the Western Desert after 12 days and nights of ceaseless attacks by our land and air forces are now in full retreat.

It's known that the enemy's losses in killed and wounded have been exceptionally high.

Up to date, we can go to... In 1942, a massive battle unfolded in northern Africa.

Axis forces from fascist Italy and Third Reich Germany advanced deep into Egypt following the Mediterranean coast.

They reached a point just 100 kilometers, or 62 miles, west of Alexandria and the edge of the Nile

Delta. At a site called El Alamein, the Axis forces were repulsed by allied troops,

including British, Libyans, Indians, New Zealanders, Australians, South Africans, the Free French, Poles and Greeks.

The Allies had dug in well, spending months fortifying strategic locations, preparing choke

points, and laying mines. As the Axis forces pushed eastward, stretching their supply lines,

they found their strength blunted, blocked,

and ultimately beaten. At the edges of Egyptian territory, the coastal defences held. As the enemy

began their retreat from Alamein, Allied soldiers pushed westward. Their march would take them

past a site called Massa Matru, which had also seen

heavy fighting. Then, a small village called Zawiyat Umelrakam, which is not recorded as a battle

location, but was inhabited. From there, the advance moved towards Libya, following the coast, pushing the axis back.

3,300 years earlier, another army marched these roads.

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