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Field guns fire from under camouflage nets

Along a low bank of sand and scrub, a row of guns sits beneath netting stretched on poles, their barrels raised towards the right; a cloud of dust and smoke billows from the muzzles and hangs over the flat ground behind. The source speaks of artillery firing in the autumn of 1942. The British offensive at El Alamein opened on the night of 23 October 1942 with a barrage of nearly nine hundred guns.

Period: c. October 1942–November 1942
Credit: US National ArchivesPublic Domain (NARA) · Digitalisierung und Bearbeitung: © zb Media GmbH

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The Eighth Army after El Alamein, autumn 1942 · News of the Day: newsreels 1937–1943

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