Allied Bayonet Charge at El Alamein

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.