Ge/A1 and Si/A1 bilayer staecimens, as well as A1-2.3 at.% Ge two-phase alloy specimens, were irradiated in situ with 1 MeV electrons at temperatures if's) in the range 10 -190 K in a high voltage electron microscope. At 10 K it is found that for a Ge/AI bilayer specimen amorphization at the interface occurs only when the Ge layer faces the incident electron beam, while for a Si/A1bilayer specimen amorphization occurs regardless of the direction of the incident beam. In this case, the critical fluence for amorphization (_c) to occur is --3x1023 cm-2 (= 30,19 and 18 displacements per atom in Ge, Si and A1 respectively). In the case of A1-2.3 at.% Ge alloy specimens irradiated at 10 J and 50 K a crystalline-to-amorphous (c-to-a) transition is observed at _c = 2.4x1023 cm'2 (24 and 14 dpa in Ge and A1respectively). The temperature dependence of _c is also studied for a Ge/A1bilayer specimen. The value of _c is a constant for T < -160, and then it increases rapidly with increasing T;Oc becomes immeasurably large at a critical temperature of = 190 K. Our results can be understood in terms of an electron-irradiation induced recoil-implantation mechanism.