Germans Couldn't Believe America Adapted in 6 Weeks | Kasserine 1943
In February 1943, the best-equipped army on earth was beaten so badly in the mountains of Tunisia that the Germans walked away certain the Americans would never learn to fight. Six weeks later, on almost the same ground, the same men with the same tanks stopped a panzer division cold. Nothing on the supply inventory had changed. So what did? This is the campaign where the US Army grew up: from the easy landings of Operation Torch, through the rout at Sidi Bou Zid and Kasserine Pass, the firing of Lloyd Fredendall and the arrival of George Patton, to the quiet repairs in doctrine and air power that nobody made a movie about, and finally to El Guettar, Hill 609, and Bizerte. The hardware stayed the same. The institution didn't. And the army won its hardest fighting without the famous general everyone gives the credit to. Sources & further reading: Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943 (Henry Holt, 2002) — Pulitzer Prize for History George F. Howe, Northwest Africa: Seizing the Initiative in the West (United States Army in World War II, Center of Military History, 1957) — the official history; free online at history.army.mil Martin Blumenson, Kasserine Pass (Houghton Mifflin, 1967) Carlo D'Este, Patton: A Genius for War (HarperCollins, 1995) FM 100-20, Command and Employment of Air Power (War Department, July 1943) — primary source on the air-power reform George F. Howe, The Battle History of the First Armored Division ("Old Ironsides") — for the unit thread specifically Chapters: 0:00 Same army, opposite result 1:24 The best-equipped army on earth 5:17 First contact at Faïd Pass 9:21 Disaster at Sidi Bou Zid 13:36 The rout at Kasserine Pass 17:43 Why it really happened 22:03 Fredendall out, Patton in 26:02 The fixes nobody filmed 29:59 The test at El Guettar 34:14 Hill 609 and the fall of Bizerte 39:07 What actually changed #WW2 #MilitaryHistory #Kasserine
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