KASSERINE PASS BATTLES Readings - US Army Center Of Military ...

(Vap . pp, 1j ;Fwarig MY tanks the mithdrwwal on the
seat roads in the diroation of Sbeitla) leads to tho Minion for Mack
and for the destruction of enemy tanS ausumad tp be thorn,
17 Abruary 1943
At 093,5 our tr?opc ; .reaoh Hadjob al Aioun without contact with
the enwV . Our raoannalsoanoo In tho area 12 km north-northwest of Eadjob
al Aioun obvervod at 1235 hr motorized enemy forces w1thdrazing .to the
northwast0rhe oaony had mined and blaotod the tountain pass at 04 el Almar .
At 15 hr our spearhead established liaison with our troopal at
Pondouk, Natives stataments disolojahkwk the enemy as having KIM
back to the apt during the night .
SAW forces in still unkaavn strum,th on Q.0suouda, Tank
apvarhyad was hold up Q Puapy mina obatoolos in the aria 6 km northeast
of Qdjeb . el - Ajoun and 10 km south-oouthivost of Fondouk. Tho approach
roud .to Fondoiuk lay _candor onamy artillery fire from a northern direction.
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14 Februm
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Quiet might . .4. rm more priagara were brought in ; they-balonged
survounded
to tho,ramalsim/onany0orooo (168th American IUf.Rgt) on DjAaasouda . In
the early yorp5mg our troops ocoupiad QLoasouda and the last rarnatle
of the eawW wara oapturod . Q My unak enemy foroas avro atill ocoupyinz
Plohon in the roranom As our troopa approached the anary withdrew to
the most so that the town Brae taken iAthout fighting . Arab atatow,3nts Ilahis
close that the enoqr has withdrava the bulk of .1U= forcea about 30 W.
19 Fabruax7 -1943
The divisional C.P. Is shiftod to El Alem, north of Viroinn.
Die Intalligenee officer sots out for the advanead C . P, of