Название: US Soldier vs Afrikakorps Soldier: Tunisia 1943
Автор: David Campbell, Steve Noon
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Серия: Osprey Combat 38
ISBN: 9781472828163
Год издания: 2019
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 81
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 20 MB
Operation Torch, launched on 8 November 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 US Army was powerfully well armoured and equipped, but fresh to war, and it showed. Organization suffered from a surfeit of peacetime theories and training was insufficient and ill-applied. Despite such failings the US GIs and their commanders learned very quickly, adapting to German tactics and the realities of mechanized warfare. The Axis forces in North Africa were seasoned by years of fighting against increasingly powerful British and Commonwealth forces, and were led by one of the Reich's most capable generals. The German doctrine of mechanized warfare had proved itself time and again, but ever-growing logistical and supply problems were blunting its effectiveness.