North Africa
The Battle of North Africa
- Germans wanted to go through the Suez Canal
- Also wanted to go there because of their oil
- Germans fought here for raw materials
- Bernard Montgomery and his Desert Rats fought:
- Rommel and the Afrika Korps
- They win a turning point battle at Al Elamein in 1942
- Prevent the germans from Suez and Oil and shows the Germans best troops could be beaten
- Americans join in 1942 under Dwight D. Eisenhower
I want to impose on everyone that the bad times are over, they are finished! Our mandate from the Prime Minister is to destroy the Axis forces in North Africa...It can be done, and it will be done!
- General Montgomery
- General Montgomery