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Largest tank battle in ww2 kasserine pass12/16/2023 ![]() Since the end of World War I, the United States had turned its back on its armed forces, particularly the army. Years before these forces met-indeed, years before Germany declared war on the United States-the outcome of the battles at Sidi bou Zid and Kasserine Pass had already been determined. In the impending clash at Sidi bou Zid and in the ensuing larger fight five days later at Kasserine Pass, he would make no mistake in demonstrating to Fredendall why he was known as the Desert Fox. If he had been on the scene, he might have realized that the hills on which he was perching his infantry regiments were too far apart for those units to support each other or the tanks on the flat ground below them. Fredendall was 80 miles away, plotting his battle tactics on a map. US Major General Lloyd Fredendall had never seen Sidi bou Zid, the patch of North African desert where hisforces were about to clash with those of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel on February 14, 1943. The GIs in Tunisia’s Kasserine Pass were in trouble. Their equipment was outdated, their leadership was weak,and Desert Fox Erwin Rommel was aiming his army straight at them.
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