On Board HMS Duke of York a British Battleship WW11
At the out break of World War II Montgomery had risen to the rank of Generals and was in command of the British 3rd Division which he took to France in 1938, only to be evacuated again from Dunkirk battered but in one peace in 1940.
He was then given command of V and then VII Corps and sent by Churchill to the Western Desert to take command of the 8th Army replacing Auchinleck. The 8th Army had just been reequipped with modern equipment when the German commander Rommel overstretched himself with the speed of his advance, Montgomery was then able to turn and chase the Germans towards Tunis.
Montgomery became the first British general to defeat a major German commander in open battle.
In January 1944, he was recalled to Britain to help plan the invasion of Europe were he insisted on amplifying the landing force from three divisions to five. on the 6th June, he conducted a well judged offensive against the Germans, in September he gave up command of the land forces to Eisenhower but continued in charge of the 21st Army Group until the end of the War.
His last major achievement of the war was the organization of the Rhine Crossing. He was made Viscount Montgomery of Alamein for his great victory of 1942.
