Wednesday, February 20, 2008
This Day in the Short History of American Defeats by Nazis
On this day in 1943, German troops of the Afrika Korps, who had broken through our lines at Kasserine Pass, in Tunisia, the day before, continued to defeat, for a while, the U.S., Free French and British forces inexorably closing in on them. Rommel bloodied our nose but didn't have the men and material to exploit his initial advantage and withdrew three days later. We didn't immediately follow.
An MG 34 is pictured above, ready for long range fire.
Labels: North Africa Campaign, WWII history; European theater
