For educational purposes<br /><br />In 1942, after a crushing defeat in France and the loss of Singapore to Japan, British forces produced Germany's first major defeat at El Alamein, in northwestern Egypt. <br /><br />It was an unqualified success, and signaled to the British that the war was not hopeless. <br /><br />As Churchill later remarked, "Before Alamein we never had a victory; after Alamein we never had a defeat."
