El Alamein ( For those that do not know, since our near worthless schools no longer teach history, this was a crucial battle fought In World War 2 in the desert of western Egypt between the British 8th army led by Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery and the German Afrika Korps led by Field Marshall Erwin Rommel in 1942. The British won and the German threat to the Suez Canal and to the recently discovered oil fields of Iraq and Saudi Arabia were kept out of German hands. )