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How artillery beat Rommel after Kasserine. (World War II).(the Red Fox)

From: FA Journal  |  Date: 5/1/2002  |  Author: Baldridge, Robert C.

Two great feats of the US Army Artillery in World War II were the February 1943 emergency forced march of the 9th Infantry Division Artillery (Div Arty) into Tunisia, North Africa, and the division's resulting victory in the battle against a German panzer division of Field Marshall Irwin Rommel at Thala Pass. Furthermore, the 9th Div Arty fought without the division's three infantry regiments present. The 9th Artillery had been too far away to help stop the crushing German ...

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