العلمين — El Alamein
(Place)
Also known as: El Alamein.
Mentioned in
- 18 Battalion and Armoured Regiment
- List of Illustrations
- List of Maps
- CHAPTER 4 — Garawla Interludes
- CHAPTER 18 — Battle at Minqar Qaim
- CHAPTER 19 — Alamein Chessboard
- CHAPTER 20 — Disaster at Ruweisat
- CHAPTER 21 — The El Mreir Fiasco
- CHAPTER 22 — Trial by Heat
- CHAPTER 23 — Farewell to the Blue
- CHAPTER 24 — ‘Tanks of our Own’
- CHAPTER 25 — Back to Europe
- CHAPTER 37 — The Road to the Plains
- CHAPTER 44 — Retrospect
- Index
- 19 Battalion and Armoured Regiment
- 20 Battalion and Armoured Regiment
- 21 Battalion
- 22 Battalion
- 23 Battalion
- Foreword
- Preface
- List of Illustrations
- List of Maps
- CHAPTER 6 — Libya 1941
- CHAPTER 8 — Battle for Egypt
- CHAPTER 9 — The Battle of El Alamein
- CHAPTER 10 — On to Tripoli
- CHAPTER 11 — The Tunisian Campaign
- CHAPTER 12 — Maadi to Orsogna
- CHAPTER 16 — Iesi to Gambettola
- CHAPTER 18 — The Last Campaign
- Index
- 24 Battalion
- 25 Battalion
- Foreword
- List of Illustrations
- List of Maps
- CHAPTER 5 — Syria
- CHAPTER 6 — The Alamein Line
- CHAPTER 7 — Battle of Alamein
- CHAPTER 8 — Advance to Tunisia
- CHAPTER 9 — Tunisia to Italy
- CHAPTER 14 — Advance on Florence
- CHAPTER 15 — Rimini to the Uso
- CHAPTER 17 — The Senio
- CHAPTER 18 — The Senio to Trieste
- Index
- 26 Battalion
- 27 (Machine Gun) Battalion
- Foreword
- List of Illustrations
- List of Maps
- CHAPTER 9 — Minqar Qaim
- CHAPTER 10 — Ruweisat Ridge
- CHAPTER 11 — El Mreir
- CHAPTER 13 — The Battle of Alamein
- CHAPTER 14 — The Pursuit
- CHAPTER 16 — Victory in Africa
- CHAPTER 20 — Cardito, Terelle, Balsorano
- CHAPTER 21 — Florence
- CHAPTER 22 — The Romagna
- Index
- 28 (Maori) Battalion
- List of Illustrations
- List of Maps
- CHAPTER 5 — Crete
- CHAPTER 6 — Sollum and Gazala
- CHAPTER 7 — Minqar Qaim
- CHAPTER 8 — Parry and Thrust
- CHAPTER 9 — Alamein to Tripoli
- CHAPTER 10 — Medenine and Point 209
- CHAPTER 14 — Cassino
- CHAPTER 15 — Advance on Florence
- CHAPTER 17 — The Winter Campaign
- CHAPTER 18 — The Last Battle
- Index
- 2nd New Zealand Divisional Artillery
- List of Illustrations
- List of Maps
- CHAPTER 13 — The Surveyors
- Index
- Maadi and the Western Desert
- Preparing for Desert Operations
- Field and Anti-Tank Batteries are Reorganised
- [section]
- Threats from All Quarters
- The Break-out After Dark
- [section]
- The Battle of Alam Halfa
- Moving Up to the Front
- The Artillery Plan
- The End of Operation Lightfoot
- Planning supercharge
- Trouble for the Anti-Tankers
- The Pursuit
- [section]
- The Development of the Stonk
- The Parade for Mr Churchill and Other Events
- The Advance to Gabes
- Takrouna
- Burg el Arab
- [section]
- The Rimini Front
- Rivers, Canals and Ditches of the Romagna
- The Forthcoming Offensive
- The Senio Crossing
- General Freyberg Sums Up
- The Disbandment
- The End and the Continuation
- 4th and 6th Reserve Mechanical Transport Companies
- Alam Halfa and Alamein
- [title page]
- List of Illustrations
- List of Maps
- Chronology
- CHAPTER 1 — The Opposing Armies
- CHAPTER 2 — The Alam el Halfa Defences
- CHAPTER 4 — Axis and Allied Plans
- CHAPTER 7 — The Battle Develops
- CHAPTER 8 — Withdrawal of the Panzer Army
- CHAPTER 11 — Summary of the Battle
- CHAPTER 12 — The Uncombined Operations
- CHAPTER 13 — Preparations for the Offensive
- CHAPTER 14 — The Development of the Plans
- CHAPTER 15 — The Eve of the Offensive
- CHAPTER 16 — 30 Corps' Plans
- CHAPTER 18 — 10 Corps' Plans
- CHAPTER 19 — Comparative Strengths
- CHAPTER 20 — Advance by 30 Corps
- CHAPTER 21 — The Battle is Joined
- CHAPTER 23 — Dawn, 24 October
- CHAPTER 27 — The Fourth Day of Battle
- CHAPTER 28 — Australians Keep the Initiative
- CHAPTER 29 — Australians under Counter-attack
- CHAPTER 30 — Operation supercharge
- CHAPTER 31 — The End of the ‘Dog-fight’
- CHAPTER 32 — The Pursuit
- CHAPTER 33 — Halfaya Pass
- Appendix III — New Zealand Casualties in the Battle for Egypt — 20 June–21 November 1942
- Bibliography
- Glossary
- Index
- Bardia to Enfidaville
- Preface
- CHAPTER 16 — Conclusion
- Glossary
- Index
- [section]
- The Halt at Bardia
- Reorganisation
- Air Power
- Operation torch
- The Enemy Retirement into the Agheila Position
- Montgomery
- Rommel and the Enemy
- Attacking Nofilia
- From the Enemy's Side
- The Division moves Forward
- 23 January—Tripoli Captured
- Mr Churchill's Visit
- The Enemy Attempt at Disruption
- Operation ‘pugilist’ — General Plan of Eighth Army
- The Enemy Attacks
- The Outflanking Problem
- Delayed Attack
- The Enemy
- [section]
- The Enemy
- The Terrain
- The Attack at Akarit
- Comparative Strengths
- Patrolling
- 10 Corps' Orders
- Eighth Army Plans
- I: Allied Battle Casualties, North Africa, October 1942–May 1943
- New Zealand
- OFFICIAL
- Battle for Egypt
- Preface
- List of Maps
- CHAPTER 5 — Rommel Strikes
- CHAPTER 6 — Forced March to the Desert
- CHAPTER 7 — Preparations for Decisive Battle
- CHAPTER 8 — Auchinleck takes Command
- CHAPTER 11 — New Zealand Division Isolated
- CHAPTER 12 — Twenty-four Tense Hours
- CHAPTER 13 — Eighth Army in Last Ditch
- CHAPTER 14 — The Enemy Plan
- CHAPTER 15 — Eighth Army Holds the Line
- CHAPTER 16 — Defeat of Ariete Division
- CHAPTER 17 — Thrusts, Parries, and Plans
- CHAPTER 18 — Both Armies Prepare Attacks
- CHAPTER 19 — Battle of Tell el Eisa
- CHAPTER 20 — Armies Spar for Positions
- CHAPTER 21 — Planning for Ruweisat
- CHAPTER 22 — Capture of Ruweisat Ridge
- CHAPTER 24 — Fighting on the Ridge
- CHAPTER 25 — Enemy Prepares Counter-attack
- CHAPTER 27 — Reflections
- CHAPTER 28 — Raids, Patrols, Consolidation
- CHAPTER 29 — Plans for El Mreir
- CHAPTER 32 — Price of Bad Planning
- CHAPTER 33 — Reorganisation
- Appendix II — 22 BATTALION IN CAPTIVITY
- Index
- Chaplains
- Crete
- Divisional Cavalry
- Divisional Signals
- Documents Relating to New Zealand's Participation in the Second World War 1939–45: Volume I
- Documents Relating to New Zealand's Participation in the Second World War 1939–45: Volume II
- Index
- 134 — General Freyberg to the Minister of Defence
- 147 — General Freyberg to the Minister of Defence
- 148 — Headquarters 2nd NZEF to the Minister of Defence
- 150 — The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to the Prime Minister of New Zealand
- 155 — Headquarters 2nd NZEF to Army Headquarters (Wellington)
- 172 — General Freyberg to the Minister of Defence
- 174 — General Freyberg to the Minister of Defence
- 190 — General Freyberg to the Minister of Defence
- 196 — General Freyberg to the Minister of Defence
- 197 — The Prime Minister to General Freyberg
- 204 — General Freyberg to the Prime Minister
- 223 — The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to the Prime Minister of New Zealand
- 230 — General Freyberg to the Prime Minister
- 303 — General Freyberg to the Minister of Defence
- 318 — General Freyberg to the Minister of Defence
- 319 — General Freyberg to the Minister of Defence
- 399 — General Freyberg to the Minister of Defence
- 414 — General Freyberg to the Minister of Defence1
- 442 — The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to the acting Prime Minister of New Zealand1
- 480 — General Freyberg to the Prime Minister
- 482 — The Prime Minister to Headquarters 2nd NZEF (Cairo)
- Documents Relating to New Zealand's Participation in the Second World War 1939–45: Volume III
- Episodes & Studies Volume 1
- Episodes & Studies Volume 2
- In Peace & War: A Civilian Soldier's Story
- Italy Volume I: The Sangro to Cassino
- Italy Volume II : From Cassino to Trieste
- Journey Towards Christmas
- Medical Services in New Zealand and The Pacific
- Medical Units of 2 NZEF in Middle East and Italy
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- LIST OF MAPS
- INDEX
- In the Kaponga Box
- Reactions at Base
- Flies
- ASC and AFS Drivers
- The Casualty Clearing Station
- 2 General Hospital Moves to El Ballah
- At the CCS
- The Break-out
- [section]
- Over Halfaya Pass
- CCS Moves up to Gerawla
- CCS Crosses into Tunisia
- The Hospitals
- Return of Field Units to Egypt
- Senio Attack Launched
- 4 Field Ambulance
- 5 Field Ambulance
- 6 Field Ambulance
- 1 (Mobile) Casualty Clearing Station
- 102 Mobile VD Treatment Centre—At Castelfrentano, 327. — ASC
- American Field Service
- 1 General Hospital
- New Zealand Engineers, Middle East
- List of Illustrations
- List of Maps
- CHAPTER 7 — The Crusader Campaign
- CHAPTER 9 — The Western Desert Railway
- CHAPTER 10 — Neap Tide in Egypt
- CHAPTER 12 — The Turn of the Tide
- CHAPTER 13 — High Tide in Tripolitania
- Index
- 21 Mechanical Equipment Company
- 18 Army Troops Company
- SURVEY AND RAILWAY OPERATING AND CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES
- 18 Army Troops Company
- 21 Mechanical Equipment Company
- [section]
- Railway Operating Group
- 18 Army Troops Company
- 21 Mechanical Equipment Company
- [section]
- The Army Troops Companies
- [section]
- New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force (Vol. I)
- New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force (Vol. II)
- New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force (Volume III)
- CHAPTER 1 — Prelude to War
- Preface
- Contents
- Appendix I — PRINCIPAL EVENTS OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND MEDITERRANEAN CAMPAIGNS 1940–45
- CHAPTER 3 — Western Desert—The Second Year
- CHAPTER 4 — Western Desert—The Third Year
- CHAPTER 5 — Algeria and Tunisia
- CHAPTER 6 — Malta
- CHAPTER 8 — Italy
- Bibliography
- Index
- New Zealand Medical Services in Middle East and Italy
- List of Illustrations
- List of Maps and Diagrams
- CHAPTER 10 — Alamein to Tripoli
- Appendix I
- Index
- [section]
- [section]
- Utilisation of Field Ambulances in Desert Warfare
- Enemy Attacks in Western Desert
- [section]
- Battle Situation
- Medical Units in the Breakthrough
- The Alamein Line
- Enemy Attacks
- Withdrawal from Kaponga Box
- Attack on Ruweisat Ridge
- Work at Base Hospitals
- Summer at Alamein
- Evacuation of Wounded
- Surgery During the Campaign
- Standard of Surgery
- Hygiene and Sanitation
- Infective Hepatitis
- 23 NZ Field Ambulance
- 2 NZ Field Transfusion Unit
- [section]
- Importance of Hygiene
- Recuperation
- Messages of Appreciation
- Plan for the Offensive
- Medical Plan for the Battle
- Divisional Medical Arrangements for the Battle
- Battle of Alamein Begins
- Functioning of Medical Units
- Medical Arrangements
- [section]
- The Work of the Main Dressing Stations
- Work at 1 NZ CCS
- Surgery at Alamein
- Surgical Treatment During the Battle of Alamein
- Base Hospitals
- Medical Lessons from Alamein Battle
- The Advance Begins
- General Situation – The Pursuit to the Frontier
- Medical Lessons from the Advance to Tripoli
- ADMS 2 NZ Division Promoted to DDMS 30 Corps
- The Battle of Medenine
- Functioning of Medical Units
- Review of Medical Operations
- Grouping of CCSs
- Consultant Surgeon
- [section]
- The General Hospitals
- Post-Operative Care
- Summary
- Strength of Units—Other Ranks
- Health of Troops
- Unfit and War-worn Men
- [section]
- Attack on the Senio
- Closing Days in Egypt
- Petrol Company
- Political and External Affairs
- Prisoners of War
- Problems of 2 NZEF
- Supply Company
- The Home Front Volume I
- The Home Front Volume II
- The New Zealand Dental Services
- The Relief of Tobruk
- The Royal New Zealand Navy
- War Economy
- War Surgery and Medicine
- Preface
- List of Illustrations
- SULPHONAMIDES
- INFECTION
- EXPERIENCE OF NEW ZEALAND MEDICAL CORPS DURING THE DIFFERENT CAMPAIGNS
- SECOND WORLD WAR
- DEVELOPMENT OF THE FIELD SURGICAL UNIT
- THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE AIDS IN 2 NZEF
- THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CCS
- SPECIALIST SURGERY
- THE WORKING OF A FORWARD SURGICAL UNIT SITED AT AN MDS OR CCS
- FORWARD SURGERY IN 2 NZEF: BY CAMPAIGNS
- 2 NZ Division
- SECOND WORLD WAR
- PROBLEMS OF SHOCK FROM THE CLINICAL ASPECT
- SECOND WORLD WAR
- Second World War
- SECOND WORLD WAR
- SUMMARY OF DEVELOPMENTS IN SECOND WORLD WAR
- PRE-OPERATION FACTORS
- OPERATION
- POST-OPERATIVE TREATMENT
- EVACUATION FROM THE FORWARD OPERATING CENTRES
- PROBLEMS AT THE BASE HOSPITALS
- Second World War
- PLASTIC AND MAXILLO-FACIAL SURGERY IN THE MIDDLE EAST
- [section]
- Medical Boarding Overseas
- Hysteria
- Battle Casualties
- Battle Casualties
- Index
- SECOND WORLD WAR
- [section]
- Some Inferences
- Hospitalisation
- New Zealand VD Treatment Centres
- [section]
- Later Experiences in 2 NZEF
- Appendix B — Table Comparing Battle Casualties with Exhaustion and Neurosis Cases
- Desert Sores
- Fly Control
- Bathing Facilities
- Water Supplies
- Food
- Results of Good Health
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