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	DEUTSCHES AFRIKAKORPS - The Battle of the Kasserine Pass
		The Germans attacked the pass on 30 January and the defending allied troops were unable to hold their ground.
		The remains from a PzKpfw III close to the Kasserine Pass, in Tunisia, mark the scenery of one of the less memorable facts of the American forces.
		As the Germans withdrew towards the mountains, II Corps moved to retake Kasserine, and by 25 February the pass was again in Allied hands.
	dak.planetaclix.pt /dak/kasserinepass.htm (889 words)

	Kasserine Pass & The Mareth Line February - May 1943
		On February 19, Rommel probed the American lines, and concluded the Pass was the soft spot in the American lines.
		Most importantly Kasserine Pass taught the Americans the doctrine of massed firepower.
		Battle of Kasserine Valley from Texas Military Force Museum
	www.worldwar2database.com /html/kasserine.htm (761 words)

	Edwards Glen Edwards Combat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The desperate battle of Kasserine Pass, when the Germans smashed through the mountains hoping to drive the brash Americans into the sea, proved to be a baptism of fire for the 86th Squadron.
		Following the Kasserine Pass crisis, he was decorated for improvising a skip bombing technique which was successful against the German Panzers.
		Kasserine Pass proved to be a turning point in the Mediterranean Theater; from then on, the Allied forces never turned back.
	www.edwards.af.mil /history/docs_html/people/edwardsg4.html (283 words)

	Battle of the Kasserine Pass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The Battle of the Kasserine Pass took place in World War II during the Battle of Tunisia, fought between the German Afrika Korps under General Erwin Rommel, and the Americans under General Lloyd Fredendall in the Kasserine Pass (a 2 mile wide gap in the Dorsal Chain of the Atlas Mountains) in central Tunisia.
		The battles at Kasserine Pass and Sbiba gap Upsetting this plan was the fact that some American troops had already crossed the Atlas Mountains and had set up a forward base of operations at Faïd, in the foothills on the eastern arm of the mountains.
		The battle raged for a day, but poor use of armor by the US led to their defeat, and by the end of the day the field was won by the Afrika Korps.
	battle-of-the-kasserine-pass.kiwiki.homeip.net (1636 words)

	The Hammer of Hell
		Kasserine Pass demonstrated that Antiaircraft Artillery junior officers had to understand the situation on the battlefield.
		The failure at Kasserine Pass was primarily an organizational failure; Harriman did not have enough 90mm gun battalions to put guns in the Bled Foussana to counter the Luftwaffe's reconnaissance efforts.
		And lastly, the integration of the air defense battle between corps and division and with the Air Force is in the same shape it was 45 years ago.
	www.skylighters.org /hammer/chapter7.html (2071 words)

	The Hammer of Hell
		Kasserine Pass was a miserable place to be on Friday morning, the 19th of February, 1943.
		When he arrived in the middle of the pass in the late afternoon, Madden was startled to see the gun march ordered and its crew preparing to move to the rear.
		The battle at Kasserine Pass highlighted that there would never be enough antiaircraft forces to meet every need, and that their major use would occur in a fluid environment.
	www.skylighters.org /hammer/chapter4.html (4146 words)

	Amazon.com: Kasserine Pass: Books: Martin Blumenson,Martin Blumenson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The desert battle at Kasserine Pass in February 1943 was the first real confrontation between American and German troops, and the one that pitted Eisenhower's and Patton's leadership against Rommel's.
		There is a useful background to the battle, with reference to the status of the old French colonies in North Africa and some material for the role of the British Army.
		Blumenson writes an outstanding history of the battle from the point of view of commanders from platoon level to Corps level, stressing the problems facing them and the means by which they arrived at their decisions.
	www.amazon.com /Kasserine-Pass-Martin-Blumenson/dp/0815410999 (834 words)

	America in WWII magazine: Erwin Romme, Desert Fox, Afrika Korps, II Corps, Kasserine Pass, Sidi bou Zid, von Arnim
		The self-propelled, armored tank destroyers were an improvement, however, and the battles of Sidi bou Zid and the Kasserine Pass would see the introduction of the bazooka antitank rocket launcher.
		At the close of the 15th, the battle situation for the 168th Infantry’s 2nd Battalion atop Djebel Lessouda and its 3rd Battalion under Drake was dire, to say the least.
		The pass itself lay north of the village of Kasserine and was flanked on either side by tall hills, Djebel Semmama to the east and Djebel Chambi to the west.
	www.americainwwii.com /stories/facingthefox.htm (4124 words)

	Mystery Hunt 2000, Puzzle 1.11 (Solution) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Note that the battles come in pairs, and that there are two pairs to each "row" 2.
		The most important piece of data about each battle is the year it occurred.
		The layout of the battles on the page is important, try subtracting the date pairs.
	www.mit.edu /~puzzle/00/set1/11/Solution.html (138 words)

	TD Battalion Histories
		Battled to Sarreguemines in December, shifted to Bastogne area to support counterattack against the Bulge.
		Raced east across France, passing north of Orleans, and crossed the Moselled River to Luneville in early September and remained in the general area through October.
		Entered battle in the Hürtgen Forest with the 8th Infantry Division on 9 December.
	homepage.mac.com /yeide/TDBattalionHistories.htm (6869 words)

	Battle of the Kasserine Pass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was, in fact, a series of battles fought around Kasserine Pass, a 2 mile wide gap in the Grand Dorsal chain of the Atlas Mountains in west central Tunisia.
		The battles at Kasserine Pass and Sbiba gap
		When the battle re-opened the next day, the defenses were much stronger; the frontline was held largely by British infantry with exceptionally strong backing by US artillery.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_the_Kasserine_Pass (2018 words)

	TUNISIA AND KASSERINE PASS
		The 2d Battalion, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division, marching through the Kasserine Pass and on to Kasserine and Farriana, Tunisia, after clearing the road and fields of mines.
		Most of the battles were centered on the road-rail routes leading from eastern ports through mountain passes to the Algerian border on the west.
		The disaster at Kasserine Pass confirmed to the Allied commanders that drastic changes were needed.
	www.olive-drab.com /od_history_ww2_ops_battles_1943tunisia.php (1587 words)

	HyperWar: U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II: Tunisia
		The remainder of the force was completely "green." At the end of the battle the Army had five full divisions in the field, four of which had gained extensive experience although the cost had been high.
		When the 2d Armored Division operated as a unit in the battles for Mateur and Bizerte, the spearhead potential of armor was at last realized, and the enemy had to deal with sudden breaches in defensive lines, disruption of command links, and chaos in supply dumps.
		Battle experience confirmed the fear of tank destroyer crews: their thin armor made them easy targets for enemy tank and antitank gunners in open terrain.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USA/USA-C-Tunisia (8856 words)

	The Hammer of Hell
		The pass was fortified and well defended by the American 34th Infantry Division and the British 6th Armored Division, which had been rushed to Sbiba the night before.
		The pass at Kasserine was another obstacle that had to be forced, and the absence of maneuver room in the Bled Foussana meant the Luftwaffe support was again vital to success.
		Battery B was assigned to the defenses of Tebessa, and Battery D was assigned to defend the forces in Kasserine Pass.
	www.skylighters.org /hammer/chapter3.html (3924 words)

	Amazon.com: Kasserine Pass 1943: Rommel's last victory (Campaign): Books: Steven Zaloga,Michael Welply (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The battle for Kasserine Pass in February 1943 was the baptism of fire for the US Army in the European theater in World War II.
		The section on the actual fighting in Kasserine Pass is good, emphasizing both Rommel's failure to settle on a single tactical objective and the chaotic Allied efforts to stem the German breakthrough.
		At this point, Zaloga probably should have started to wrap the volume up, since he had covered the actual Kasserine Pass fighting, but instead he chooses to cover the US role in the final stages of the Tunisian Campaign in the last third of the volume.
	www.amazon.com /Kasserine-Pass-1943-victory-Campaign/dp/1841769142 (2006 words)

	Battlefield 1942 The Battle of Kasserine Pass Map for PC Download at GameSpot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		After reading the comments posted about this map from the Global-Conflict forums (where they used the original Kasserine Pass map in their campaign rotation), I decided to re-vamp it abit.
		As in the real battle of Kasserine Pass, air superiority will carry one team or the other a lot closer to victory.
		Allied air forces will need to establish air superiority at an early stage in the battle, and maintain it in order to take the pressure off their already disadvantaged armored forces.
	www.gamespot.com /pc/action/battlefield1942/download_6104806.html (1549 words)

	Erwin Rommel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Even then, their First battle was not against the British Eighth Army, but against the U.S. II Corps.
		Rommel inflicted a sharp reversal on the American forces at the Battle of the Kasserine Pass.
		After his battles in Africa, Rommel concluded that any offensive movements would be impossible due to the overwhelming Allied air superiority.
	erwin-rommel.iqnaut.net (1827 words)

	Saving Private Ryan: Kasserine Pass
		Kasserine Pass is a two mile wide gap in the Grand Dorsal chain of mountains in central Tunisia, Africa.
		Between February 14th and February 25th, 1943, the American 1st Armored Division suffered a major defeat at Kasserine Pass, Tunisia at the hands of German armor under the command of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
		Brigadier General Dwight D. Eisenhower was in command of the Allied forces in North Africa and is generally blamed for the losses at Kasserine Pass.
	www.sproe.com /k/kasserine.html (337 words)

	20 February 1943
		Kasserine: A shaken American army has come face to face with the military genius of Rommel - and tasted defeat for the first time in the Tunisian campaign.
		Panzers stormed into the pass yesterday and were stopped by US anti-tank fire.
		A handful of Northwest African Air Force P-39 Airacobras strafe trucks and half-tracks in the Kasserine area as the enemy breaks through the Kasserine Pass and thrusts north and west toward Thala and Tebessa.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /andrew.etherington/1943/02/20.htm (951 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The War in Europe from the Kasserine Pass to Berlin, 1941-1945.
		Cerami, Joeseph R. Kasserine, the Bulge and AirlLand Battle--Changes in the Tactical Role of Corps Artillery Field Artillery, pp16-22, October 1989.
		Reflects on the 50th anniversary of the battle at Kasserine Pass.
	www.au.af.mil /au/aul/bibs/kpass/kpass.htm (233 words)

	CSI Report No. 2 Comparative Look at Air-Ground Support Doctrine and Practice in World War II
		This system was abandoned after the disastrous Battle of Kasserine Pass when, at the insistence of senior US airmen, the methods and organizations of the RAF's Desert Air Force were adopted.
		Armed reconnaissance within the battle area is an integral part of Soviet air support, particularly in a fluid combat situation when the precise disposition of enemy forces is not known.
		If more than one pass is necessary to destroy the target, attacking flights approach the target from different directions to minimize anti-aircraft effectiveness, or approach from the direction of bright sunlight to minimize visual detection and recognition.
	www.cgsc.army.mil /carl/resources/csi/steadman/steadman.asp (12188 words)

	World War II Tributes: Battle Maps
		Note: Each battle that occurred in WWII in this area is identified with a red pin on the map below.
		The battles are listed below the map and are grouped by the modern-day country it took place in.
		Clicking on the battle name below will help you locate it on the map by causing the red pin to flash white.
	www.worldwar2tributes.com /battle_maps.php?m=Africa (97 words)

	Armchair Travel: "Our Predicament Was Damned Humiliating"
		The battle that Ernie Pyle and his buddy almost drove into, the Battle of Kasserine Pass, was a disaster for the US Army.
		I saw them in battle and afterward and there was nothing wrong with the American soldier.
		But they had had some battle experience before that last encounter, and I don't believe their so-called greenness was the cause of our defeat.
	www.gonomad.com /armchairtravel/2006/02/our-predicament-was-damned-humiliating.html (770 words)

	North African Campaign Pt. 5: Stubbing the Toe
		Shattered by his defeat at the Second Battle of El Alamein in the autumn of 1942, Rommel’s once-vaunted North African force endured months of retreat through Libya.
		His moment came in late February 1943 at the Battle of Kasserine Pass.
		With their quarry both green and overextended, Germany broke through the Kasserine Pass in spectacular fashion.
	www.wizards.com /default.asp?x=ah/article/ah200600303c (462 words)

	The Battle of Kasserine Pass: An Examination of Allied Operational Failings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Abstract : The Battle of Kasserine Pass proved to be a shock both to American military forces in the field and to the American public at home.
		The defeat of the Allied forces in the battle put doubt into the minds of many all of whom assumed the righteous democracies of the western Allies could not be defeated in the field by the armies of Fascism.
		Despite the setback at Kasserine Pass, the Americans proved quick learners, and applied the lessons of the North African experience to the remainder of their campaign in the European theater.
	stinet.dtic.mil /oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA424990 (247 words)

	Defeat at Kasserine: American Armor Doctrine, Training, and Battle Command in Northwest Africa, World War II - Storming ...
		Following a relatively easy victory against the Vichy French after the amphibious landings of Operation Torch, the division lost a series of battles to the Germans, culminating in a decisive defeat at Kasserine Pass.
		Doctrine (both institutional and equipment), training, and battle command all proved to be problematic for the division.
		An analysis of the Tunisian campaign focusing on these three areas demonstrates that faulty training and inept battle command were partially responsible for the division's defeat; however, the primary reason the 1st Armored Division lost the battle of Kasserine Pass was that it operated in accordance with flawed institutional doctrine and utilized inferior equipment.
	www.stormingmedia.us /47/4716/A471614.html (238 words)

	Overlord: The Beginning of the End (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Morgan began his work in March 1943, shortly after the Battle of Kasserine Pass in North Africa, a battle that had shaken American assumptions -- especially of what it would take to defeat the Germans.
		After recovering from the shock of Kasserine and eventual victory in Tunisia, invading Sicily and Italy seemed to be more of the same.
		But, as historian Stephen Ambrose wrote in his book “D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II,” the “most important vessel turned out to be the ‘Higgins boat,’ the Landing Craft, Vehicle and Personnel,” based on the design of boats working in the swamps of Louisiana.
	www.ausa.org /dday/overlord1.htm (1044 words)

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