With his final breaths, one of the aviators provided information to give Allied artillery accurate coordinates to target ...
For three years, Axis and Allied forces chased each other over the hostile terrain of the North African desert. The tide turned in the Allies' favour at the Second Battle of El Alamein in 1942.
While South Africa has several memorials dedicated to white soldiers who died in the world wars, Black servicemen's contributions were ignored for decades.
The war in the desert made Bernard Montgomery one of Britain's most famous generals, and gave the German General Erwin Rommel the nickname 'Desert Fox'. Follow the three years of battles in the ...