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WED 28 OCT 1942War day 1,154Mediterranean & North Africa
The RAF broke up German armour assembling for a counter-attack. The counter-attack never got started.
On 28 October 1942, the Royal Air Force broke up German armour reforming in the Western Desert for a possible counter-attack. The action came during the Second Battle of El Alamein, which had begun five days earlier as Operation Lightfoot. New Zealand Division had captured Miteiriya Ridge in the opening phase. The German armour was regrouping; the counter-attack remained a possibility, not an attack already under way. The RAF disrupted that concentration before it could become a counterstroke.
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