35 Battlefield Photos of What It Looked Like to Fight Rommel During World War II (2025)

35 Battlefield Photos of What It Looked Like to Fight Rommel During World War II 1 One of the Bren gun carriers used by Australian light horse troops in Northern Africa 2 American troops dig foxholes during the Tunisian Campaign in North Africa 3 An Indian rifleman with a British Lee-Enfield rifle practices shooting in the desert in Egypt, 1940 4 The infantry advance 5 American tank crews bound for North Africa, October, 1942 6 Australian troops string out behind tanks in a practice advance over North African sands 7 German General Erwin Rommel with the 15th Panzer Division between Tobruk and Sidi Omar 8 Two British tank officers, somewhere in the North African War Zone 9 Winston Churchill shaking hands with Lieutenant General Ramsden, commanding 30 Corps, while visiting the El Alamein area, 7 August 1942 10 Indian troops man a Bren gun on an anti-aircraft mounting 11 Italian soldiers captured during the Battle of Bardia 12 British tanks moving forwards through gaps in Axis minefields during the Second Battle of El Alamein 13 A British patrol on the lookout for the enemy, Egypt-Libya border, February, 1942 14 British light tanks cross the desert 15 A ghibli approaches from the desert 16 Cruiser Tank Mk I (A9) 17 Mario Balotta (centre) with two officers of the Ariete Division 18 132nd Armored Division "Ariete" attacks 19 Men of the Leicestershire Regiment man a Bren gun near Tobruk 20 Matilda II tanks advance 21 British troops dig in at El Alamein during the Battle of Bardia 22 A tank of the 1st Armored Division advances to support American forces during the battle at Kasserine Pass near Tunisia, 1943 23 A Panzer Mk III 24 Indian troops shelter in the shade of their vehicle 25 Central India Horse, Cyrenaica 26 British troops help a wounded German prisoner 27 A New Zealand soldier poses with twin Bren guns, somewhere in Libya, 1942 28 British troops arrive in Tunis 29 Infantry moving up during 1st Army’s attack on Longstop Hill 30 A 4.5 inch gun near Tarhuna during Eighth Army’s advance 31 A British Crusader tank passes a burning Panzer Mk IV 32 A British infantryman capturing a German tank crewman 33 British Crusader tank passes a burning German Panzer IV tank during Operation Crusader 34 Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery 35 British tanks at Ruweisat Ridge Most Popular References