In 1942, in Egypt, the German Afrika Korps and Italian forces under Rommel began a retreat westwards after a renewed campaign by the allies under Montgomery.

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Unorthodox from the start, the SAS was conceived as a commando force to operate behind enemy lines in North Africa, where the British were fighting Field Marshall Rommel's highly-skilled Afrika Korps.

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To be sure, the rally held two blocks from the World Trade Center was not a decisive defeat of the enemy like that dealt by the storied British "Desert Rats" to Hitler's Afrika Korps in November 1942.

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