US Soldier vs Afrikakorps Soldier
US Soldier vs Afrikakorps Soldier From Sidi Bou Zid to El Guettar, this fully illustrated study pits the US Army against the best that the Axis forces in Africa had to offer.Operation Torch, launched…
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US Soldier vs Afrikakorps Soldier
From Sidi Bou Zid to El Guettar, this fully illustrated study pits the US Army against the best that the Axis forces in Africa had to offer.Operation Torch, launched on November 8, 1942, landed Anglo-American forces in Vichy-controlled Morocco and Algeria to create a second front against the Axis forces in North Africa, catching Rommel's German and Italian forces in the claws of a giant pincer.The Axis forces in North Africa were powerfully well armored and equipped, but fresh to war, and it showed. Despite such failings the US GIs and their commanders learned very quickly, adapting to German tactics and the realities of mechanized warfare. Organization suffered from a surfeit of peacetime theories and training was insufficient and ill-applied.
The Afrikakorps was seasoned by years of fighting against increasingly powerful British and Commonwealth forces, and was led
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