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Podcast: The Danger Zone (DZ)
Episode: DZ Season 061 Part 19. Rommel’s Unwinnable Desert War – El Alamein – End Game for the Italian Armour – with Honour?
Description: By the time of the battles around El Alamein, July to August 1942, the best and newest Italian tanks, were woefully under gunned and under armoured compared to the new American made tanks that the British were getting. The Lee/Grant tanks first came into service in May 1942. By the time of the British Alamein offensive, those brand new 300 Sherman tanks that Marshall and Roosevelt had despatched to the Middle East by fast convoy, after the fall of Tobruk had been announced at the meeting that was underway in the White House between Churchill, Roosevelt, Alan Brooke and Marshall, had...