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Battle of Kasserine Pass
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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
).
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