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  Kasserine Pass
In February 1943, Kasserine Pass became the focal point in the North African campaign.
Fighting around the Kasserine Pass began in December 1942 when the German commander in Tunisia, Jürgen von Arnim of the German V Panzer Army, launched an attack west in an effort to link up with Rommel's army which was withdrawing from Libya to southern Tunisia.
By February 25th, the Kasserine Pass was in the hands of the Allies and the Germans had been pushed back to the Eastern Dorsale.
www.historylearningsite.co.uk /kasserine_pass.htm   (1110 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Battle of the Kasserine Pass
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 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...
On February 23, a massive US air attack on the Pass hastened the German retreat, and by the end of February 25, the pass had been retaken.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Battle-of-the-Kasserine-Pass   (2981 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)

  
 Edwards Glen Edwards Combat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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)

  
 ipedia.com: Battle of the Kasserine Pass Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Battle Kasserine Pass was a battle in World War II fought between the German Afrika Korps under General Erwin Rommel and the Americans under General George Patton in the Kasserine Pass in central...
The Battle Kasserine Pass was a battle in World War II fought between the German Afrika Korps under General Erwin Rommel and the Americans under General George Patton in the Kasserine Pass (a 2 mile wide gap in the Dorsal Chain of the Atlas Mountains) in central Tunisia.
On the 19th he launched several probes, and decided that the Kasserine Pass would be the easiest place for an assault.
www.ipedia.com /battle_of_the_kasserine_pass.html   (682 words)

  
 Kasserine Pass and The Mareth Line, February - May 1943
Rommel drove the Americans back on what would be the defining moment for the American ground soldier against the Germans ’ Kasserine Pass, in the Tunisian Dorsal Mountains.
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.
www.worldwar2database.com /html/kasserine.htm   (780 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)

  
 GMT GAMES: Kasserine
These units are used in the Kasserine Pass scenario available in C3i #15.
This full scenario begins with the tank battles at Sidi bou Zid and Sbeitla, includes action at Kasserine Pass, and could move to the final battles at Thala and Djebl Hamra if the Axis player pursues the historical routes of advance.
Kasserine is over and the Axis hope to prevent an Allied breakthrough to the coast.
www.gmtgames.com /nnka/nnka_main.html   (498 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)

  
 Kasserine Pass 1943: Rommel's Last Victory (Campaign S.)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
However, in Osprey Campaign #152, veteran author Stephen J. Zaloga argues that, "contrary to the popular image, Kasserine Pass was in the end an Allied victory." This is a very hard-sell argument and if it was not a historian of Zaloga's caliber making it, this thesis would probably be dead on arrival.
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.
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 ERWIN ROMMEL
The Germans attacked the pass on 30 January and the defending allied troops were unable to hold their ground.
Unreinforced but under orders to retake the Fäid Pass, CCA was unable to accomplish the mission, and finally assumed a defensive posture on 1 February.
As the Germans withdrew towards the mountains, II Corps moved to retake Kasserine, and by 25 February the pass was again in Allied hands.
www.geocities.com /myeriza/ERWINROMMELbattles.html   (2927 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   (1575 words)

  
 CVG - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
We should point out from the outset that the code we're in possession of is pre-alpha, which means that it's a little rough around the edges.
The opening to the Kasserine Pass level we played was suitably impressive.
Defences taken out, it's a simple case of entering the bunker complex, killing a handful of soldiers and securing the explosives that are then used to breach rocks that block the path to the next section of the Kasserine Pass level.
www.computerandvideogames.com /news/news_story.php?id=94659   (753 words)

  
 Battlefield 2 / 1942 Files - The Battle of Kasserine Pass (re-visited) (2.0) Info
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-make it, and change a few things, like the heightmap and CP vehicles spawns, vehicle coding, skins, and textures, as well as 4CentShy of Merciless adding SP support.
Kasserine Pass will not appeal to everyone, because the changes made to the vehicles will affect gameplay drastically.
As in the real battle of Kasserine Pass, air superiority will carry one team or the other a lot closer to victory.
battlefield2.filefront.com /file/The_Battle_of_Kasserine_Pass_revisited;29376   (2195 words)

  
 Kasserine Pass   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
It was now towards the end of February and whilst in Constantine, I had read in the 8th Army News of the success the 8th Army had achieved on the Southern front of Tunisia.
We were told we were in the Kasserine Pass area and were going to join the Brigade of Guards who were fighting in the American line.
The first was the three-mile-wide pass between Chamel and Jebel Semmana about five miles north-west of Kasserine.
www.ean.co.uk /data/Bygones/History/Article/WW2/Derrick_Jackson/html/body_kasserine_pass.htm   (3722 words)

  
 443rd AAA Bn - World War II - Stabilizing The Breakthrough and Withdrawal
And the Commanding General, 1st British Army, directed that forces holding high ground west of Faid be withdrawn and the Pass at Kasserine be organized for defense.
Upon his return to Kasserine at 10 pm on 17 February, he met General Ward who asked him to unload all 443rd trucks and use them to help move as much ammunition and gasoline as possible from Kasserine before midnight.
This action was to cope with the loss of thirteen gun-tracks and trailers during the action from Faid Pass to Kasserine.
www.kwanah.com /txmilmus/36division/archives/443/44328.htm   (1479 words)

  
 Battle of the Kasserine Pass Did You Mean Battle of the Kasserine Pass   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Significant as the first large scale meeting of American and German forces in World War II, The green and untested American troops suffered heavy casualties and were pushed back over fifty miles from their original positions west of Faid Pass in a humiliating rout.
Having seen their friends and comrades ripped apart by artillery, mowed down by machine guns, and burned alive in their own tanks, men of the 2nd Corp finally acquired the intense hatred of the Germans necessary to fight and kill them effectively.
At the conclusion of fighting around Kasserine, the Americans were able to regroup and repulse veteran German troops at Thala, Sbiba, and Djebel el Hamra.
www.did-you-mean.com /Battle_of_the_Kasserine_Pass.html   (1701 words)

  
 Disaster At Kasserine
A makeshift British task force positioned on one flank of the mile wide Kasserine Pass was responsible for delaying the Germans long enough for important Allied regroupings to the rear.
There were, of course, other reasons for the Kasserine calamity: the Allies had sent their troops into combat with inferior equipment.
American tanks with their 37mm and 75mm guns and thin armor were no match for the German Panzers with their 75mm and 88mm guns and much heavier armorplate.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Both Kasserine Pass and Over lord are clean, highly enjoyable games and, in both cases, victory results can go either way.
Overlord, like Kasserine, is also by Conflict Games Co. and covers the Normandy Campaign from 6th June with the Allies on French soil, up to 28th August.
As in Kasserine, unit strengths are from Brigade down--the CRT is the standard A/D retreat A/D eliminated and Exchange-- but the difference is that 2 CRT's are used the first for June and other is for July/ August.
grognard.com /zines/ph/p0105.txt   (658 words)

  
 Saving Private Ryan: Tech Sergeant Mike Horvath
Having served previously with the Rangers in North Africa (Kasserine Pass) and Italy (Anzio) alongside Captain Miller, Technical Sergeant Mike Horvath (Tom Sizemore) was a member of Company C, 2nd Ranger Battalion on June 6th, 1944.
The only Ranger unit at Kasserine Pass was the 1st Ranger Battalion, while the 1st, 3rd and 4th Ranger Battalions participated in the Anzio landings.
It is possible that both men served with the 1st Rangers at Kasserine Pass, switched to the 4th Rangers for the Anzio landings, and were then transferred to the 2nd Rangers for the Normandy assault.
www.sproe.com /h/horvath.html   (737 words)

  
 Battlefield 1942   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Axis has moved back to the village of Nuenen near Eindhoven and this is the place where the Allies face a German ambush.
The battle takes place in the deserts of Kasserine surrounding the ever famous Kasserine Pass that the Allied forces desperately tried to hold to trap the Germans in North Africa.
The map is set up with two main bases on either side of a large mountain pass with the Americans starting with a weak forward line in the pass and reinforcements on the beach.
www.eagames.com /official/battlefield/1942/us/editorial/community_message_47.jsp   (756 words)

  
 WWII Close Air Support - North Africa
Strengthened with British armor, Fredendall tried to maintain a defense in Kasserine Pass on 18 February, but German units overcame Allied defenders and poured through the pass on the nineteenth.
The battle around the Kasserine turned out to be the last serious Axis offensive effort in Africa.
Before Kasserine and before Coningham's arrival in the Tunisian sector, the argument between Spaatz and Kuter on one side and Frendendall and Anderson on the other was more of a political tussle, with compromises that pleased no one.
www.usaaf.net /has/jops/kasserine.htm   (3347 words)

  
 capture at Kasserine Pass
He was reported missing in action, presumed dead for the duration of the war until a catholic charity found him and got news to my grandmother near the end of the war.
Kasserine pass of WWII - Kevin 3:34:37 PM 7 Mar 2003 (
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 Desoto Sun Herald - 04/02/03
Sgt. Mike Sovan, a Sherman tank commander, and his men had just crossed the Nied River in France during World War II as part of Gen. George Patton's 3rd Army when their third tank was shot out from under them.
Gen. Erwin Rommel and his North Afrika Korps were dug in and waiting for the 1st Armored Division in the mountain pass.
Shortly after the American 1st Armored Division's disaster at the Kasserine Pass that began on Feb. 14, 1944, Gen. Patton took command.
www.sun-herald.com /NewsArchive4/040203/tp1de1.htm?date=040203&story=tp1de1.htm   (1604 words)

  
 443rd AAA Bn - World War II - Battle of Kasserine Valley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
On 18 February enemy infantry, supported by artillery and tanks, attacked the defenses of the Kasserine Pass, with the objective of pushing through to capture Constantine and Bone.
Stout defense of the Pass by the 26th Regiment, backed by engineer forces, finally gave way and German forces moved through and in the direction of the mountain fortress of Thala, threatening the right flank of the British 1st Army.
A night attempt by the enemy to take Djebel Hamra Pass failed and a heavy, morning rainstorm slowed a subsequent infantry attack.
www.kwanah.com /txmilmus/36division/archives/443/44331.htm   (336 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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)

  
 Re: kasserine pass   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In terms of yardage lost, the defeat at Kasserine exceeded even the diaster at the Bulge almost two years later.
But because the Germans were unable to exploit their winnings, it really had little strategic impact on the North African campaign.
The Axis cause was still doomed, and less than three months later Tunisia had been completely swept clean.
www.anarmyatdawn.com /forum/_disc4/000001da.htm   (59 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Kasserine Pass (Tunisia Political Geography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
You are here : AllRefer.com > Reference > Encyclopedia > Tunisia Political Geography > Kasserine Pass
Kasserine Pass[kas´urIn´´] Pronunciation Key, gap, 2 mi (3.2 km) wide, central Tunisia, in the Grand Dorsal chain (an extension of the Atlas Mts.).
A key point in the Allied offensive in Tunisia in World War II, the pass was the scene of an Axis breakthrough (Feb. 20, 1943), but it was retaken with very heavy losses by U.S. forces on Feb. 25.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/K/Kasserin.html   (174 words)

  
 Encyclopædia Britannica
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www.britannica.com /dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=pass   (736 words)

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