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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) ?
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