Montgomery as a platoon commander, love it.

Looks like we are going to agree to disagree about Bernard. Casualty figures for El Alamein, from memory around 14,500 Brit/Com, Axis around 30,000 by the best estimate I can find, no reliable figures from Axis records. Plus a lot of Axis prisoners.

Saw a filmed interview of O'Connor after the war, a very humble man, very down on himself for being captured. Blame Churchill el al for that, O'C wanted to push on but his best troops and his excellent staff were diverted to Greece.

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