Bernard Montgomery

General Montgomery speaks to the company of a battleship of the Home Fleet during World War II. In 1942, as Commander of the British Eighth Army in Africa, he expelled German-Italian forces from North Africa at the Battle of El ’Alamein. This was the first significant British land victory of the conflict. Montgomery was made a viscount in 1946.

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North African Campaign; General; Montgomery, Bernard Law, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

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