Montgomery takes command of the Eighth Army
1942 · Event
After 'Strafer' Gott is shot down on his way to the post, Montgomery takes over the beaten Eighth Army and restores its morale before Alam Halfa and Alamein.
On these timelines: World War II, North Africa, United Kingdom (combined), Master
More from World War II
- Battle of Midway (1942)
- Operation Torch (1942)
- Siege of Leningrad lifted (1944)
- Germany declares war on the United States (1941)
- Bataan Death March (1942)
- Casablanca Conference (1943)
- Sobibór extermination camp (1942)
- Doolittle Raid (1942)
Around 1942
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Korean War (1950)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- World War II (1939)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)