Alam Halfa and Alamein
List of Illustrations
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List of Illustrations
Frontispiece | |
General Freyberg and his brigadiers, 23 October 1942 | J. C. White |
Following page 152 | |
Aerial mosaic, Alamein | |
Wheel tracks, Alamein | R. C. Gibson |
Approaching dust-storm | E. J. W. Howarth |
Washday | NZ Army (H. Paton) |
Fly-proofed | R. S. Wait collection |
Bofors gun and crew | NZ Army (H. Paton) |
Digging a trench | NZ Army (H. Paton) |
Sandbagged headquarters dugout | NZ Army (H. Paton) |
A disabled enemy tank serves as an OP | NZ Army (H. Paton) |
A 5 Field Regiment gun crew | J. C. Pattle |
The gunners go underground during a Stuka raid | J. C. Pattle |
Stuka pilot shot down at Alamein | NZ Army |
Camouflaged gunpit | J. Christensen |
Special message by General Montgomery, 20 August 1942 General Alexander, Mr Churchill and General Montgomery | British official photograph |
Mr Churchill and General Freyberg | British official |
German prisoners captured by the Maori Battalion, 4 September 1942 | C. N. D'Arcy |
Aerial mosaic showing the depressions south of Bab el Qattara | |
Munassib Depression | W. Timmins |
Wounded awaiting treatment in 6 ADS, near Alam Halfa | A. H. Thomas |
General Freyberg and Brigadier Kippenberger, August 1942 | H. K. Kippenberger collection |
German propaganda leaflet and some of its New Zealand readers | NZ Army (H. Paton) |
A New Zealand navigator in the Long Range Desert Group | British official |
An LRDG patrol | British official |
Kiwi Concert Party audience in the rest area near Burg el Arab | NZ Army (H. Paton) |
‘Swordfish’ area A Sherman tank of 9 Armoured Brigade | NZ Army page x |
A Grant tank on manoeuvres | NZ Army |
Following page 332 | |
A flight of Liberators sets out on a raid | NZ Army (M. D. Elias) |
Air Vice-Marshal Coningham and General Montgomery | Imperial War Museum |
Two of the ‘Commonwealth commanders’: General Morshead (AIF) and General Freyberg | J. C. White |
Commander's conference. General Freyberg discusses plans for the Division's attack on Miteiriya Ridge | J. C. White |
The barrage opens: a 5 Field Regiment 25-pounder | J. C. Pattle |
A ‘Scorpion’ flail tank in action | Imperial War Museum |
Miteiriya Ridge. Tanks and prisoners in 6 Brigade's area | A. D. Watkin |
The congestion of tanks and trucks on 22 Battalion's front, 24 October | C. F. Whitty |
5 Field Regiment gunners watch aircraft overhead as the New Zealand Division's convoy moves through the enemy minefields | J. C. Pattle |
British tanks halt for maintenance | NZ Army (M. D. Elias) |
New Zealand convoy in soft sand | NZ Army (H. Paton) |
A shell bursts near the convoy | NZ Army (M. D. Elias) |
New Zealand main dressing station | K. G. Killoh |
Italian prisoners | NZ Army |
General Freyberg directs operations from the turret of his Honey tank | NZ Army (H. Paton) |
GOC's orders group conference, morning 1 November 1942 | J. C. White |
British tanks begin the pursuit | NZ Army |
Wrecked enemy transport | NZ Army (H. Paton) |
New Zealand convoy on Boomerang track | NZ Army (H. Paton) |
El Alamein railway station | 18 Army Troops Company photograph |
Heavy rain delays the convoy near Fuka | G. Lyon collection and J. C. White |
Past Fuka. Looking eastwards along the Western Desert road | NZ Army (M. D. Elias) |
The New Zealand Mobile Casualty Clearing Station convoy stops for tea | S. L. Wilson |
Nearing Mersa Matruh | NZ Army (H. Paton) |
Mersa Matruh | NZ Army (M. D. Elias) |
Climbing Halfaya Pass | G. H. Levien |
A New Zealand engineer sweeps for mines near the top of the pass | NZ Army (H. Paton) |
The winding road up Halfaya Pass | NZ Army (H. Paton) |