This is going to be another of my war history blogs like the one on Crete. It's really more about me recording my personal experience rather than entertaining you lot, so skip it if you aren't interested. For those who do read it hopefully I can give you more of an appreciation of just what went on and the important contributions and sacrifices that the NZ soldiers made. Perhaps my main motivation for coming to Egypt was to visit El Alamein, the scene of a major WWII battle that my grandfather had fought in. Anyway being based in Alexandria for a few days made it easy to organise a day trip to El Alamein, which is about 100km west along the coast from Alexandria. The battle that was fought there was one of the largest in
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