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The Battle of North Africa
- Germans wanted to go through the Suez Canal
- Also wanted to go there because of their oil
- Germans fought here for raw materials
- Bernard Montgomery and his Desert Rats fought:
- Rommel and the Afrika Korps
- They win a turning point battle at Al Elamein in 1942
- Prevent the germans from Suez and Oil and shows the Germans best troops could be beaten
- Americans join in 1942 under Dwight D. Eisenhower