Video: Nov. 13, 1942 (at 7:36)
(Friday, November 13, 1942, 9:30 a.m. local time, part of the Western Desert Campaign of World War II) — Units of the British 1st and 7th Armored Divisions entered Tobruk, Libya, today following victory at the Second Battle of El Alamein. It was the second time and final time Tobruk fell into Allied hands.