Battle of Kasserine Pass

The Battle of Kasserine Pass took place during the Tunisia Campaign of World War II in February 1943. Kasserine Pass is a wide gap in the Grand Dorsal chain of the Atlas Mountains in west central Tunisia. The Axis forces led by Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel, were primarily from the Afrika Korps Assault Group, elements of the Italian Centauro Armoured Division and two Panzer divisions detached from the 5th Panzer Army against Allied forces of the U.S. II Corps (Major General Lloyd Fredendall) and the British 6th Armoured Division (Major General Charles Keightley), parts of the British First Army (Lieutenant-General Kenneth Anderson).