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The Second Battle of el Alamein pushed all German forces out of North Africa and opened up the way for the Invasion of Sicily and Italy. It was a major defeat for Rommel's Desert Army.

Winston Chuchill was quoted as saying: "before Alamein we never won a battle, after Alamein we never lost one".

== The Battle was a turning point in the North African campaign. Just prior to this, the British changed their commanders. Gen. Alexander took over the command of the British forces with General Montgomery under his command. Under their command, they formed 2 mobile armored divisions that were trained for desert war. The Allied air forces and navy began cutting off the Axis supply lines.

All these changes lead up to the victory at El Alamein and the battle resulted in a change of attitude for the British 8th Army. The German army began to realize that they could not win without more supplies reaching their ports.

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The Battle of El Alamein not only allowed total free access to the Suez Canal for Allied shipping, which was of special importance now that the war had taken on a global nature, but it also stopped the Germans from threatening the Middle-Eastern oil fields, a major supplier of Allied oil reserves. The victory, coupled with joint Allied landings in French Algiers, also finally spelled the elimination of an Axis presence in North Africa and ended the Italian dreams of a 'new Roman Empire'. There were also strategic implications: the defeat in North Africa began the series of events that led the invasion of mainland Italy and the toppling of the Italian dictator Mussolini. This brought the Italians onto the Allies' side and left Germany at a strategic disadvantage across the whole of the Mediterranean.

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It moved the axis forces from the oil planes letting the allies get to the oil planes and get the oil, allowing them to have more power and to be able to attack for longer because they had more fuel

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There were two battles at El Alamein. The first one ended in slalemate with no obvious winner and the second one ended when the British were able to drive the German and Italian armies out of North Africa thereby securing their oil supplies.

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The British and Commonwealth victory at Second El Alamein effectiveley crushed the Afrika Korps and Luftwaffe in north Africa. This meant that the Allies could now invade Sicily and Italy.

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At the end of the war, Winston Churchill said that before El Alamein, Britain had never won a battle and after El Alamein we had never lost one.

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