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It turned the tide against the Germans in North Africa in WWII. The war could have turned out very differently if the Brits had lost El Alamein and the Germans had driven through Egypt, taking over the Suez Canal and possibly securing the massive amounts of oil in the Middle East needed to run Hitler's Panzers.

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