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Allied Bayonet Charge at El Alamein
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During the First Battle of El Alamein, an Italian Army motorized artillery column is spotted by a British Royal Artillery Observation Unit and the Allied guns open fire. At this critical moment a bayonet charge is ordered by the New Zealander commander. Listen to The War Office Podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, or The War Office Podcast YouTube Channel for more in-depth history podcast episodes. New episodes will be released every Tuesday morning. If you enjoy the episodes, please help us grow the podcast by subscribing, liking, sharing, commenting, and listening to future releases.
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The Ariete motorized artillery column
loses contact with the rest of the
division and strays too far to the south
into the open desert where they are
spotted by a Royal Artillery observation
unit.
With such a tempting target in front of
him, Brigadier Steven Weir of the 2nd
New Zealand Division ranges his guns and
orders them to open fire.
Brigadier Weir's artillery pounds away
at the helpless Italians while he calls
for an infantry attack.
Seeing the disaster unfold, the local
Italian commander calls for a fighting
withdrawal but it is far too late.
Weir orders his men to attack and the
battalion launches a bayonet charge
supported by mortars and machine guns.
The Italians of the Ariete Division are
overwhelmed by the sudden charge. It was
a tremendous piece of soldiering by the
New Zealanders
but the the Italians are also put in a
tremendous effort and they they don't
quite come close to winning but they're
certainly they give the New Zealanders a
very very tough time and that's the the
case if you if you'd like to look at
first week of this. That's the case of
locking horns of close engagement of
literally man-to-man bayonet fighting at
times.