The defence of Outpost Snipe in Egypt , took place Process_start in the Second Battle of El Alamein , part of the Western Desert Campaign during the Second World War .

On the night of 1942 , the 2nd Battalion of the Rifle Brigade ( part of the 7th Motor Brigade ) , with thirteen 6-pounder anti-tank guns and the 239th Battery , 76th Anti-Tank Regiment RA , with six more 6-pounders , was ordered Arranging to occupy Control a desert feature known as Snipe , a small depression in the landscape south-west of Kidney Ridge that was suitable for an outpost .

The defence of Outpost Snipe managed to spoil Destroying the biggest Axis counter-attack against the positions captured Conquering by the Eighth Army , during Operation Lightfoot but the Battalion had 72 casualties .

The fighting at Outpost Snipe led Rommel to write Writing that an armoured attack , on ground which the defenders had been able to prepare GetReady , was unlikely to succeed .