Campaign 152 - Kasserine Pass 1943 - Rommel's last victory.pdf

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O SPREY

PUBLISHING

Campaign

Kasserine Pass 1943

Rommel’s last victory

Steven J Zaloga

Illustrated by Michael Welply

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Kasserine Pass 1943

Rommel’s last victory

Campaign 152

Kasserine Pass 1943

Rommel’s last victory

Steven J Zaloga Illustrated by Michael Welply

Series editor Lee Johnson Consultant editor David G Chandler

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Author’s note

First published in 2005 by Osprey Publishing

Midland House, West Way, Botley, Oxford OX2 0PH, UK

443 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016, USA

E-mail: info@ospreypublishing.com

The author would like to thank the staff of the US Army’s

Military History Institute (MHI) at the Army War College at

Carlisle Barracks, PA for their kind assistance in the

preparation of this book. Special thanks go to Roger Cirillo

and David Rockwell for their comments on the recent state

of the Tunisian battlefields.

For brevity, the traditional conventions have been used

when referring to units. In the case of US units, 1/16th

Infantry refers to the 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment.

In the case of German units, 1./Panzer Regiment 7 refers to

the 1st Battalion, Panzer Regiment 7.

In the maps that feature in this volume, the following

colors have been used to denote nations and forces:

© 2005 Osprey Publishing Limited

All rights reserved. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study,

research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and

Patents Act, 1988, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a

retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic,

electrical, chemical, mechanical, optical, photocopying, recording or otherwise,

without the prior written permission of the copyright owner. Enquiries should be

addressed to the Publishers.

ISBN 1 84176 914 2

Editorial by Ilios Publishing, Oxford, UK (www.iliospublishing.com)

Design: The Black Spot

Cartography: Map Studio, Romsey, Hants, UK

3D bird’s-eye views: The Black Spot

Index by Alison Worthington

Originated by The Electronic Page Company, Cwmbran, UK

Printed in China through World Print Ltd.

Olive Drab

US

Brown

British

Dark Blue

French

Sky Blue

Italians

Grey

Germans

The photos in this book are primarily from the US Army’s

Signal Corps collections at the US National Archives and

Records Administration (NARA) in College Park, MD, the

Military History Institute, and the Patton Museum at Ft. Knox.

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Linear measurements

Key to military symbols

Distances, ranges, and dimensions are given in the con-

temporary US system of inches, feet, yards, and statute

miles rather than metric:

Army Group

Army

Corps

Division

Brigade

Regiment

Battalion

Company/Battery

Platoon

Section

Squad

Infantry

Artillery

Cavalry

feet to meters:

multiply feet by 0.3048

Airborne

Air mobile

Air defense

Air Force

Air transportable

Amphibious

Unit HQ

yards to meters:

multiply yards by 0.9144

miles to kilometers:

multiply miles by 1.6093

Antitank

Armor

Air aviation

Bridging

Engineer

Headquarters

Maintenance

Medical

Missile

Mountain

Navy

Nuclear, biological,

chemical

Ordnance

Parachute

Reconnaissance

Signal

Supply

Transport

movement

Rocket artillery

Air defense artillery

Key to unit identification

Unit

identifier

Parent

unit

Commander

(+) with added elements

(–) less elements

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

7

The strategic background Operation Torch

CHRONOLOGY

13

OPPOSING COMMANDERS

14

Axis commanders Allied commanders

OPPOSING FORCES

19

Axis forces Allied forces

OPPOSING PLANS

30

Preliminary moves: from Sened Station to Faïd Pass

The German plan Allied plans

THE CAMPAIGN

39

Operation Frühlingswind : Sidi bou Zid Confusion at Sbeïtla

Operation Morgenluft Operation Sturmflut : the battle for Kasserine Pass

Command decisions Supporting Montgomery: Operation Wop

The final campaign in Tunisia

THE CAMPAIGN IN RETROSPECT

90

THE BATTLEFIELDS TODAY

93

FURTHER READING

94

INDEX

95

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