
ALT Dark green ARGUS card. Header: "On this day | 4 November 1942". Title: "El Alamein". Text: "Rommel asked Hitler for permission to fall back. No reply came. At 17:30 he ordered the retreat. With no trucks, most Italian infantry were left behind." Gold question: "Did he wait too long?" Footer: "Sources: Playfair (2004); Bierman & Smith (2003), via Wikipedia" and the ARGUS wordmark.

ALT Dark green ARGUS card. Header: "On this day | 3 November 1942". Title: "El Alamein". Text: "Rommel reported his worn-out army could not hold. The answer from Berlin: stand fast, yield not a yard of ground. He ordered the line held." Gold question: "Obey the order or pull back?" Footer: "Source: The Rommel Papers (1953), via Wikipedia" and the ARGUS wordmark.

ALT Dark green ARGUS card. Header: "On this day | 2 November 1943". Title: "Empress Augusta Bay". Text: "Night action off Bougainville, Solomon Islands. Task Force 39 used radar to turn back a Japanese cruiser force sent against the beachhead." Gold question: "Sensors or drills: which carried the night?" Footer: "Source: Naval History and Heritage Command" and the ARGUS wordmark.






