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Well, reading the Liveblogging WW2 I found the entry for yesterday interesting.

Apparently, Dwight D. Eisenhower inspected US Army positions at Faïd and Maizila passes mere hours before 21st and 10th Panzer brushed off US 1st Armored in battle of Kasserine. With a slightly different timing Allied supreme commander might have been captured by Rommel. Obviously, unless the Allied campaign in Tunisia devolved into chaos (a very slight possibility) this changes very little in the correlation of forces. However, Ike's personality was indispensable for smooth functioning of disparate personalities involved at various sides. So, what the effects would be for the Allied campaign in North Africa, Italy and ultimately Normandy had Ike been captured?

Furthermore, what effects would this have on his presidency later on? Or would he be a viable candidate after all?

One more possibility - what if the Germans decided he was too important and put him on the airplane to Germany. Suppose the plane is shot down by the Allies. What would happen?

IMHO, the immediate command of the theatre would devolve on Alexander? Am I right? But obviously, in the long term, Americans would have wanted American general in overall command... Who would give in first? Patton or Anglo-American alliance? :D

Again, I agree that long-term, there is no changing of the ultimate outcome of the campaign. Allies are too strong for that. However, could the slower pace of the battle affect the other theaters of war?

I tried searching for this, but the results came empty.
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