In February 1943, Kasserine Pass became the focal point in the North African campaign. Armies & Commanders: In November 1943, Allied troops landed in Algeria and Morocco as part of Operation Torch.

These events grew … Fighting around the Kasserine Pass began … The battle was the first for the Americans in Africa. In November 1943 as part of Operation Torch, Allied troops landed in Algeria and Morocco. “A ll battles,” the historian John Keegan once observed, “are in some degree disasters.”. They, along with their British and French allies, were seeking to defeat Erwin Rommel’s fearsome Afrika Korps Assault Group.

KASSERINE PASS, BATTLE OF. The Battle of Kasserine Pass was Erwin Rommel’s last great achievement in North Africa. 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. The Battle of Kasserine Pass had achieved its tactical aim of breaking through the pass, but been thwarted in its strategic objective. Battle of the Kasserine Pass Facts. The Battle of Kasserine Pass—actually a series of battles in February 1943 when raw American troops had their first major battlefield encounters with the German army—has long ranked as one of the worst disasters ever suffered by the United States Army. The Axis powers planned to use the Kasserine Pass to prevent General Dwight Eisenhower from concentrating his forces against Tunis. After the Battle of Kasserine Pass An M3 Lee tank of US 1st Armored Division advancing to support American forces during the battle at Kasserine Pass. In a series of engagements in Tunisia during World War II that reached a climax near the Algerian border at the Kasserine Pass, combined Italian and German forces in February 1943 drove American and French troops back about fifty miles from the Eastern to the Western Dorsale mountains.. The Battle of Kasserine Pass was fought February 19-25, 1943, during World War II (1939-1945). Together with Montgomery's victory at the Battle of El Alamein these two operations put the Axis forces in Libya and Tunisia in a uncertain position. The real-life Battle of Kasserine Pass took place in February of 1943, shortly after the United States entered the war. 7. Buildup to Kasserine: The Run for Tunis and Battle of Sidi Bou Zid.

KASSERINE PASS, BATTLE OF.