I'm going with what I learned before and I'm gonna say G
It was commercially important. It allowed for the shipping of commercial goods and saved time + money.
The name of the general that led the Nazi forces in the Battle of El Alamein was: General Rommel. He was one of the most popular generals during World War II. Rommel ended up killing himself upon his plot to try and dethrone Hitler.
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To protect the city from flooding, they proposed raising the level of the entire city by picking up most of the structures in the city and filling in beneath them with sand.