Timeline Monday 27 July 1942

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Monday 27 July 1942

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Events on Monday 27 July 1942 1

1942 First Battle of El Alamein British Eighth Army halts Rommel's advance Auchinleck's Eighth Army stopped the German-Italian Panzer Army Africa at a defensive line near El Alamein, about 100 km from Alexandria. The fighting ended in stalemate. It stopped the Axis push toward the Suez Canal.

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