3-023-960 - British Pathe Ltd/Heritage Images

Allied Soldiers Riding a Tank, 1942. Second World War: North Africa. 'At long last the great Allied steamroller is in motion - slowly as yet, but that doesn't make it any the less certain. The overall pattern of the next two years has been set. A pattern whose shape was first discerned at a little desert railway station called El Alamein'. From "Time To Remember - The End Of The Beginning", 1942 (Reel 4); documentary film about events of 1942 and America's entry into the war.