Better Kasserine Pass- Yanks not regarded as 'your Italians'

During the start of the US entry into WWII in the Med, the inexperienced American soldiers & amateur or incompetent officers, after being severely mauled at Kasserine Pass in May 1943, were initially so disregarded as opponents by the AFRIKA KORPS that supposedly a captured German officer taken prisoner by the British 8th Army joked to his English captors that the Yanks were to the Brits just as the Italians were to the Germans. :(

Now, WI the US forces in Tunisia in 1943- notwithstanding they were fresh out of peacetime) had put up a better showing against the Germans ? Esp if say Fredendall was recognised as a total dimwit & removed from command early in the game before the shells started flyin- but what other PODs would be required to shape up the US Army to prevent American soldiers suffering a severe first battle reverse against the Germans (as also occurred in Buna against the Japs, or with the likes of TF Smith in Korea) ?
 
George Patton read Rommel's book. Von Arnim used a common ruse that Rommel employed often against the Rats. Wouldn't have fooled him.
 
What about an american version of the Blue Division serving in the British Army. Could give them the change to have soldiers with actual combat experience after WWI by the time the US enters the war.
 
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